[WARNING: VIOLENT CONTENT AHEAD!]
"I, Theodore Wilson of Alpha blood, challenge you, Jace Tila, to the death, for the leadership of Northern Forest."
"Jace is not here," Dimitri sneered. He came, after all. Even a Lycan could not ignore an instinctual call from nature. He stood over fifty paces from Theo, with many Northern Forest warriors at his back; too many, in fact. Even knowing why so many wolves from the pack would have been commanded and coerced into attending this play for power, it was a blow to be on the opposite side of so many brothers-in-arms. At least most of them had the shame to cast their eyes down from him. They may never forgive their own actions here today, Theo regretted.
Focus, Theo. That is a problem for tomorrow. Today’s task is to survive until then. Daemeon w
