ELIJAH's povThe air around me felt ripe with tension, and I could tell a storm was gathering. Most of the elders shifted uncomfortably in their seats, until one finally spoke up."for years now, we've held up our traditions, and they’ve worked fine enough." His tone was defensive, but I had come prepared."until now." I said firmly, "you've held up these traditions, and none of them have served us in these trying times. None of them have explained the nature of the creature that terrorized us for so long. And to make things worse, the lot of you have barely cared. You left us to deal with the whole thing while you watched from behind closed doors."My tone was accusatory, but nothing I said was a lie.I didn't raise my tone, but my contained anger was somewhat palpable.Although my father stayed quiet. He didn't give his two cents, instead he simply sat there, watching me, perhaps trying to decipher who I was as an Alpha, to understand the man that had emerged from the boy he left be
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