"If that's the captain why ain't he changing back?" Rocket voices his immediate primary question. Maybe the wolf was just too tired. Maybe the wound was some kind of curse or something he was chained with was. If this wasn't a form he already had, then it was obviously a curse in his mind, but there was also the possibility he was a shiftling, a shapeshifter, or under a curse he had already had before the orcs.

"We can't exactly take him back to the camp like Here you go, one missing captain found. If any of them even believed us and wasn't in on this I don't think they'd take kindly to us or him." Which left them with a very hungry, very sick, large predator animal on their hands and no idea when he might be well enough to change back or even if he could.

"Don't think any of them in town would believe us or a shiny rock either, even if it told them a hundred times that wolf is their fearless leader." And then there was the little problem of how they have undoubtedly pissed off the current leaders of a large military force. Sure their hands were full now, but what happens when the undead army has been dealt with if they still don't know how to change Lykos back.