Wolves of the Calla #1 (Prologue)

📖 Section Covered: Prologue  📢 Episode Summary: In the first episode of a brand new book, Tadd and Peter dive into Book 5 Wolves of the Calla. In a first for this series we start the book with someone other than Roland or our Ka-Tet. We find a farmer named Tian Jaffords in a cursed part of his field. He is working his very tall but simple-minded twin sister. A robot named Andy comes and Tian guesses (correctly) he is bringing news of the Wolves, they are coming in 30 days. He is distraught, so too is his wife who was watching their 5 children, two sets of twins and a "singleton" and Tian wonders if it is time to say no to the wolves. We also see his wife has a large simple-minded twin, and they have a "Grand-pere" living with them. He calls their town together, their town is so small there is not even a sheriff let alone any sort of leader, and many show up including eight Manni and a late-coming stranger. They debate standing up against the Wolves. We learn they have been coming for six generations (give or take) and they take one of the two twins from age 3 to puberty and the one they take comes back "Roont" empty of mind and large of body. We also find out that twins are the norm here and "singletons" are rare and coveted because they are safe from the Wolves. The Wolves come every 20+ years or so. It is not overly going Tian's way, the folks appealing to reason are winning the day, but finally the later-comer speaks up and we find out it is Father Callahan, he of Salem's Lot, and he challenges them all to stand. He then says because they are just farmers and ranchers they should hire some killers and there are four of them travelling nearby along the path of the Beam. Secretly he thinks he can give them the thing living under the floorboards of his church because it has awoken.  💬 Join the Conversation: 📫Email: [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darktowerpalaver/ Twitter: https://x.com/DarkTowerPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darktowerpalaver/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/darktowerpalaver.bsky.social Threads: https://www.threads.com/@darktowerpalaver Support the Show:  Patreon: https://Patreon.com/DarkTowerPalaver