Sebastian POV
The office of a High Alpha was one of the most coveted positions in polite Lycan society.
No one else in Court retained as much power as a High Alpha, for their word was the law that bound us all together. Without a High Alpha, there would be no order, as seen in the Age of Lawlessness before the War of Packs. When packs thought it best to fend for themselves, a barbaric time where the innocent were slaughtered under the guise of survival of the fittest.
As a result of its substantial influence over all werewolf kind, and the horrors of the days of old, High Alpha was not a title given to those faint of heart. Thus, the abode of a High Alpha was known as the Lair of the King for a reason and reflected such gravitas.
Father had kept the room styled in the same decorative trappings as all the Lykaios men did: with the pelts of his enemies. The tiled floor could barely be seen, so thick were the pelts of my family's fallen enemies—our legacy in blood.
