Latent: [A Werewolf Romance]
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I'm Alister, the Beta of the Beastclaw pack, and I am sorry to have kept you all waiting for this long."
To smiles and murmurs that said no worries, he continued, "Alpha Vaughan won't be dining with you all, I'm afraid he is..." His face scrunched a little as he looked for the right word. "Indisposed," he said finally.
Or in his Rehabilitating Cell, I thought darkly.
"But rest assured," he continued, "he'll be present for the Lightning."
The Lighting: the official commencement of the festival, where the Alpha lit up one of the lanterns rumored to have passed down generations, and from a Pioneer at that--one of the first werewolves created by the moongoddes