MITCHELL: I am sitting here listing to the one-sided narrative, and I understand what is happening, but I have to come clean and them as well. But I can see what the Alpha is intending to do here. “I did tell my mate, and Frank.” I say aloud to the room.
DRAKE: I hear Mitchell, so I tell Kes through the link what he said. “Well then you can add two more people to that list. “I have a question though.” “What is it?” “Other than how long it lasts; do we have a clue as to how far it will go? I mean, we know that it will reach to the cabin, as Trever and I just linked with each other, but if there is a war coming then we would have to be able to link between packs, and as the cabin is on our territory and everyone is also here, it’s not that far.” She says, and I repeat it to the room at large, and I hear some mumblings. “I will let you go, so that we can continue with our meeting.” I say to her and close the link. “So that part of things are done, we know it works, and I could hear the conversation between the prince and Kes. So, we can start with that much any way.” I say to the others. “Plus, Kes has a point, we need to test the distance of the link so any volunteers?” “I will check with my men to see if any want to volunteer for this.” Camron says. “And that way we will also know if it will work for more than just alphas.” He added. I nodded. “I will have to start the process of informing the others, and let them know what we have already done, and know.” I tell them. They all nod.
JAMES: “I have one thing to add, it’s unrelated, but Jessie still remains an issue, I have a feeling she is scheming, so please be aware, and if she asks any of you about Keska, You have no idea where she is.”
DRAKE: “If Jessie dose approach any of you, please send her to me!” Everyone nods their head as they get up to leave my office. Once everyone is gone I take out my phone and dial Burning Ember. I get a “Hello Drake” after a couple of rings. “Hello Alpha Fredrick, I have a couple of issues that I would like to discuss with you.” “Alright I have the time.” He answers. “First, I would like to ask you to ask for a volunteer from your warriors to participate in an experiment, it nothing bad, but they will be marked, it’s for the possible issue of war between Harvest Moon, us and Stone Claw, and goddess knows how many others, and I would like to have someone from your pack in on this.” “Someone preferably from your mate’s family?” He asks with a chuckle. “Not necessarily, congratulations by the way she will be an excellent princess.” I tell him. “Thank you.” He says to me. “I will get into specifics a bit later. As to the experiment, it has to do with the marking, Dark Moon’s heir apparent, Alisha, who going to be our next queen by the way, has some extremely old text about a war that was fought over 100 years ago against Stone Claw, and in them it mention’s non-matting marks to allow for communication between allied packs fighting against them. What we know so far is that yes it works, Keska is mated to the youngest prince, and as she is too young, he can’t mark and mate her, but I allowed this marking to happen so he can link with her and it does work, the other part we know is that a second person can link in and say be a narrator so to speak, to pass on troop movements, positions, that sort of thing.” “Congratulations to you then as well, and as for a volunteer, Larz is a good candidate.” “There is a second issue that is unrelated, but I would like to have your help with.” “I’m listening.” “Jessie is having problems with Keska, I don’t like the idea of lying but I think in this case it’s for the best, I am going to tell Jessie that I am sending Kes your way, until the end of the ball, and when Jessie shifts on Wednesday I am hoping her mate will come forward to claim her and I will let them leave.” “Where is Kes now?” “In a cabin in the northern part of the territory.” “I will cover that issue for you.” “Is your man here? Or will you need to send him?” “No, he is there.” “I will have Rachel bring him in, and ask him, or do you want to call him and give him a heads up?” I ask him. “No, have Rachel bring him in. But now back to this issue of possible war with Stone Claw.” He brings the conversation back on topic. “So, the story, as given to me, by the parties involved is the princes and their mates including Kes, and her best friend Mackinzie were taking a hike, along with 4 other warriors, my daughter decides she wants a picknick, but seeing as they didn’t pack for one, they decided to go to the human town, and get what they would need for the picknick, and one of the warriors came across his mate in the bakery.” “She is from Stone Claw, and she has a pup about 4 years old.” I relay the story I was given. “What pack is her mate from?” “Harvest Moon.” “Was there any other packs involved?” “Midnight Sky Pack, two warriors from each pack, don’t know how that happened but it did.” I answer him. “After finding her they forewent the picknick idea and came straight back to the pack coming up to the front gates.” I tell him. “And from what I gather she did not have a good time of it in Stone Claw, and there in is the issue of possible trouble.” I tell him. “And so that dose bring us back somewhat to the experiment, if your man agrees, then we can hopefully get a distance reading on how far the marking will allow for, and it will fit that I am sending Kes with him back to you.” I say to him. “Yeah, check with Larz, I believe he will be the right man for the job.” “Thank you Fredrick.” Welcome. Anything else?” He asked. “Well, he may get a link, to check the distance issue.” I tell him. “Ok, I look forward to finding out if it works myself.” He says “Yes, bye.” “Bye.” I hang up. I send a text to Rachel. (Please come to my office, and bring Larz? I believe was the name, with you.)
RACHEL: My phone dings, it’s a bit after breakfast and everyone was pitching in to get the marquee set up for the pool tournament I take it out and see who was texting me. I see that it was Alpha Drake, and he was asking for me and Larz. I look around the marquee to see if he was anywhere near, but he wasn’t so I sent him a quick text. (Larz please come to the marquee, Alpha Drake is wishing to see us.) I show Trent my phone and the message from Alpha Drake. “I’m coming too.” He says.
