If there is anything worshipped more than rank in a wolf pack, it’s power.
And a duel is the way designed to make sure that power can get its way over rank. Anyone in the pack, of any rank, could challenge any other member from any rank, and it only ends with a death, or occasionally two. But the fight is strictly limited to hand-to-hand combat with no weapon allowed.
It looks like the no-weapon rule is for fairness, but everyone knows, it’s making sure that an Omega doesn’t come on top easily -- after all, a hand-to-hand combat doesn’t exclude shifting.
“Don’t talk crazy!” Lilith pushes Leo away and manages a smile, “I don’t need you to kill Orion for a few mean words!”
It was more than a few mean words. It was ten years of her life. But she chose to love Orion, and she can accept the
