Beta Rex stood up, announcing, “Team Zander is the winner of this part of the competition. Victor, congratulations on beating their leader, but Zander's team still won two of the three fights. Stand and shake hands.” As Zander and Victor shook hands, Beta Rex was not finished; in front of the entire pack, he spoke the worst words ever to be heard in any pack, “I, Beta Rex of the Black Mountain pack, challenge Alpha Vincent Strong for the title of Alpha as sundown.”
To which my father, standing to his feet, declared, “I, Alpha Vincent Strong of the Black Mountain pack, accept the challenge to the Alpha position at sundown.” Then he continued, “Until then, everyone is to disperse; no one is to be wandering the pack lands. The only exception is those who require medical attention. Alpha squa
