DNA testing revealed the girl was not from the area, or even the country. Her identity matched a Ukrainian child listed as missing since 2022.
She had vanished during wartime evacuations. Her parents were presumed dead. Somehow, she had made it across borders, forests, and oceans, with no record of transport.
Security footage from 3 nights earlier, found deep in the system’s cloud storage. Showed the wolf leading her to the barn, she didn’t stumble in.
Experts still debate how she survived. How the wolf found her. Or how she ended up in rural Montana at all. But Hank doesn’t care.
He just built a new fence — with a wolf-sized gate.