Read the excerpt from "Mowgli's Brothers."
“Oh, thou art a man’s cub,” said the black panther, very tenderly, “and even as I returned to my jungle, so thou must go back to men at last—to the men who are thy brothers—if thou art not killed in the council.”
How does the black panther's statement develop the plot?
The true Law of the Jungle is friendship and loyalty.
Mowgli will take his place as the rightful leader of the pack.
The Law of the Jungle has been breached, so Mowgli will be disciplined.
It foreshadows that Mowgli will eventually return to man.