The Alpha King's Breeder
This is the next generation, who looks to me as their Alpha.
I turn back to the older men. They’re wet, like they’ve recently returned from being in the woods before sunrise. “A hunting party came upon a kill in the upper valley and disturbed whatever… it was.” Joshua, a close friend of my father and an elder in our pack, says, stepping forward through the crowd. “It was too dark for them to see the beast, but they heard it.”
“Was it a bear?” I ask because that’s the most plausible answer. They’re rare, but they’re definitely around, especially in the wild, still untouched upper valleys that separate the Deadlands from Moonrise and further east.
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