DRAKE: James just had to go and open a can of worms, not to mention the fact that Jessie was trying to get Kes, I don’t know, sexually frustrated? None of it makes any sense to me. “Give me your reasoning, the thought process behind why you think we should continue training the women?” I say to James. “It’s like I said, only if they want to continue with it, but it will increase our warrior count, it will make the pack safer, because there will be less that we would have to try to defend, between the boarders and the pack house, they will be right beside us helping to defend their home just as much as we are.” He says. “Not just trying to defend themselves.” “Ok, I will make the announcement after the ball is over.” He just nods his head.
JESSIE: I am so pissed right now, if Kes were here I’d probably tear into her, how dare she get to take a martial arts class and the rest of us don’t get to train. When did she even go? Where did she even go? Goddess she is just such a little bi.tch I can’t stand it. And father knew? How? When did he actually find out? Aarrgg! Too many questions, and not enough time to get the answers. “I have to agree with James, especially if Kes is still training, the rest of the pack should be able to have that choice as well.” I say a bit harsher than I intended to.
FRANK: I’m happy to help out the Alpha with this little experiment he is doing, but I’m not sure if I want to have half a dozen marks on my arm for all of this, not to mention not knowing how long any of this will last. I just wish there were more documentation on this stuff. I am happy that I found my mate though, and she happens to be a warrior like me, not that it would matter, I would still accept her no matter what, I have waited 6 years for her. But now that I have her, I think that I will ask the Alpha if we can have one of the front houses/cottages for us to live in. I take my mate, and we head to the marquee for dinner. We are in line, when I get a link, I open for it. “This is Frank, go.” “This is Lars, I know this was supposed to happen tomorrow, but the Alpha wanted to get the message to you, he has been trying to reach Meadow Brook Pack, but no one is responding, and since the Alpha to Black Waters is there, and their pack is closer, he was hoping that he could send someone from his pack to go check on them.” “I will let the Alpha know.” I close the link. “I need to go speak to the Alpha love, go ahead and eat I will join you as soon as I am done.” I tell my mate. And head to the Alpha’s table. “Alpha, Lars just contacted me, seems they can’t raise Meadow Brook and was hoping that Alpha Craig could send someone to go investigate.” I tell him. He nods to me and gets up and goes over to the mic.
DRAKE: I walk over to the mic. and turn it on. “Your attention please! I know that we said that we would confirm the distance issue tomorrow, but Alpha Fredrick just sent word through the link, he has lost contact with a small pack that he has ties to. Alpha Craig, a word with you, please.” I turn the mic., off and head back to my table and wait for Alpha Craig. “Drake what’s up?” “Do you know Meadow Brook?” “Yes.” “Do you think you could send someone to confirm whether they are still ok, or if we lost them.” “I can do that.” I watch as he pulls out his phone and calls someone in his pack. I go back to eating not wanting to eavesdrop.“Done, but it will be at least a couple hours before we know anything for sure.” He tells me. I nod. “But at least we have some idea of distance, don’t know if it will go farther, but we know it will reach Burning Ember, and that’s a 4-hour drive one way.” I say. And he nods. It would be nice to know if it will cross state lines. We will just have to wait.
BARRETT: I wait to hear what alpha Drake has to say, then I send a text home to Father. (We have a situation brewing, it seems like Stone Claw may be up to no good, if we have anything in the royal archives, please fax it over to Blue Crecent asap.) I put my phone away. I was about to open a link to Trever when I see him and Dutch come into the Marquee. I wave them over. “Hey, what’d we miss, it seems a bit tense in here.” Trever asked me. “Well, the distance issue is somewhat solved, it will reach Burning Ember, but we may have already lost a small pack.” I tell him. “What?” I nod to him. “Is anyone going to check, to verify?” “I believe alpha Craig just may have done that. All we can do is wait and see.” He and Dutch both just shake their heads.
MACKIE: With dinner almost over I head to the kitchen and start to put things in containers, and start the water to wash the pots, pans, and other cooking vessels that were used to make the dinner. I make sure that there is counter space for the leftovers to come in from the marquee, and make sure that there is room in the refrigerators. I turn the water off when the sinks are full. I then start to bring in the dishes from the marquee. I wonder what happened, the place seems tense. I link Dutch. “Hey, umm do you know what’s going on by chance? The place seem a bit tense.” “Yes, Barrett just told us that alpha Fridrick was trying to reach a small pack, and no one has responded.” “Oh crap. I just hope that everything is ok, and it’s not what we think.” “I know beautiful me too.” I close the link. This all just sucks, and I just wish that my best friend could be here.
LIAM: With dinner over Dutch and Trever get the pool table moved back into the marquee, I go up to the mic stand and make the announcement, “We have 3 games left in the Pool tournament, if you haven’t registered for the darts tournament please do so now during these last pool games, once the winner of the pool tournament is announced the darts registration will be closed. With that over can we have prince Trent, and Delta elite Thorne take your places.” Then after the announcement I go rack the balls. Both Trent and Thorne come up and shake hands with each other. “Hello gentlemen, I have a coin I am going to flip, Thorne please call it in the air.” I say to them. “Tails.” He calls. It lands on heads. “Heads, Prince Trent will break. Good luck to you both.” I say to them. And go back to the score table where Lissa is sitting and waiting for me.
TREVER: With the start of the pool game the atmosphere changes, it’s still tense but it’s a different tenseness, it’s for the game being played and not impending war.
