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"The Advocate's Fire"

Penulis: June Calva
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-09-13 21:03:38

POV: Desi Whitmore

The pack hierarchy demonstration left a bitter taste in Desi's mouth that had nothing to do with the cafeteria's overpriced coffee. She sat in the Eastmoor Hall common room, ostensibly working on her Political Theory assignment but actually replaying Derek Matthews's casual cruelty toward Otto Moorland with growing disgust.

"Dead weight anyway. Might as well make it official."

The words echoed in her mind like a slap, not because they were particularly creative insults, but because they represented everything wrong with supernatural society's approach to pack hierarchy and social value. Derek had reduced a brilliant young diplomat to his pack designation and found him wanting, dismissing genuine capabilities because they didn't fit traditional Alpha-centric models of leadership.

It was exactly the kind of systemic discrimination that Desi had spent years watching her parents navigate in their diplomatic careers—the assumption that worth was determined by inherited s
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