After we finished eating dinner, the omega’s took away what was left of the food and brought in some bottles of whisky and glasses for everyone. I had a feeling that this was the council members' favourite part of the evening because it was the only time since they arrived that I saw any of them smile genuinely. The council members sipped on whisky and started to tell us stories about their lives before they became council members. Every one of them was the alpha of a pack before they joined the council. For some of them this followed the predictable path of finding their mate, taking over the pack and starting a family. Two of them however, followed a slightly different path and it was their stories which were more interesting to listen to. We spend a couple of hours listening to their

