The first hour of the morning disappeared beneath reports, and the second vanished into meetings. By the third, the Alpha King was beginning to suspect that half the kingdom had collectively decided every problem in existence required his personal attention. He signed a document, reviewed another, approved a budget request, and rejected a proposal involving three separate committees and a plan so complicated that nobody seemed entirely certain what it was meant to accomplish. Across the desk, his advisor waited patiently while he finished reading the final page. Sunlight streamed through the office windows, illuminating the growing stack of completed paperwork threatening to overtake one corner of the desk. “Anything else?” the Alpha King asked as he set down his pen. “Only the market i

