Madoka’s Point of View
The alphas were spread out before me, their lunas beside them. I counted the votes. I knew we would win this fight. Alpha Sean made sure about it but I wanted to hear the final verdict with my own ears from the head alpha before I reacted. If he were a younger werewolf, I would have thought he was trying to drag out the suspense, but I suspected the wait was down to his great age.
"The nays have it, fifty-four to fifty-one."
I exhaled. By three votes we had escaped Phantom's attempt to dissolve us.
"We won we won we won," Carrie said in my head. Sinji's whoop across the pack link almost drowned out her excitement, except I would always hear her over everything else. "They can't stop us now, without making their own decision sound invalid. They'll have to certify
