Six weeks after the installation, Alaric called for a formal pack assembly.
Not for political business. Not for election aftermath or reform ratification or any of the administrative machinery that had occupied the citadel since the hearing. He called it for something that had not occurred in the Northern Crescent Pack in eleven years.
A Luna Naming.
The formal ceremony by which a destined mate was publicly acknowledged before the full pack, her role confirmed not through the completion of the bond mark, which was a private ceremony between mates, but through the pack's collective recognition of her presence and authority. It was, in the pack's traditional structure, the ceremony that came before the marking, the public acknowledgment that preceded the private one.
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