He was the Alpha King. The position was never contested. It was never discussed. Every wolf who arrived looked at Lucian Moon and understood, in the place where wolves understand things, that this man was the center and the rest of them were the circumference.
Fin watched his first life build a species from scratch and the watching was a mirror held up to every decision he'd made in this life.
The same instinct. The same gathering. The same you are welcome here and the here is permanent. Shadowclaw had been founded on the principle that the rejected had a home and the home had a king who would never let them forget it.
That was something his father taught him as a boy and something Fin made sure to continue as an Alpha King now.
The memory faded into something else.
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ARGENVAEL
The kingdom was a corpse.
