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Chapter Ninety: Elder Challenges

Penulis: Harry Green
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Eighteen months into Hope's Elder tenure, she faces her first major crisis—not as mediator, but as decision-maker.

A pack in Oregon—the Stormridge wolves—has been systematically excluding hybrid wolves from full membership. Not through violence or explicit persecution, just through informal discrimination that keeps hybrids as second-class citizens.

Three hybrid wolves petition the Council for intervention.

"We're born to Stormridge parents, raised in the territory, but we're not allowed at alpha gatherings, can't hold leadership positions, and face constant subtle discrimination," the petition states. "Alpha Warren claims it's 'tradition,' but tradition doesn't excuse prejudice."

The Council debates intervention for three hours.

"Pack autonomy is a fundamental principle," Elder Marcus argues. "We can't dictate internal membership policies without an extremely compelling reason."

"Systematic discrimination based on hybrid status is a compelling reason," Hope counters. "We intervened i
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