My Say

27

"First I want to thank you all for coming."

"Is it true you've killed your mate?" A Luna from our Southern border interrupts.

"If you'll hold your questions till the end." I nod at her. "Thank you for coming, I hope to accomplish a lot."

"I only came to see if it was true?" The same Luna speaks. I left the tables open to see who grouped together. Her table only has one other Luna, they both appear to be young and untested. The other Lunas avoid them.

"Is it true you're a turned?" The second Luna asks.

"Luna Kitritage and Luna Nyle we are here to strengthen our alliances and to arrange for a Mate Meet before the first snowfall." All attention is focused solely on them only, it's not the kind of attention they want.

"Our Betas arrange all of that."

"Then why did you come instead of sending your Betas?" Both females squirm. "Ah you really did want to see if I'd killed my mate. Why? Wondering if you could do the same?" The lower ranked gasp, one or two of the Lunas also but most begin to look at me with new eyes.

"How dare you!!!" Luna Kitritage stands as if she's going to actually do something.

"I want to remind all of you that this is being filmed." Most of the Lunas grin into their napkin, they must have seen her throw this type of fit before. "So if you wanna throw shade I'd be careful, you don't get burned by the sun." She sits back down hard, crossing her arms, she begins to pout. "I met most of you at the Alpha meeting but seeing as how I was such a new Alpha I beg your forgiveness if I failed to speak to you." I bow to the room, the older Lunas are now paying attention to me. "I would like to spend the rest of the afternoon getting acquainted. Tomorrow is enough time to hammer out the details."

Several of the Lunas send me silent pleas, "Would you mind if?"

"Please feel free to go change into more comfortable clothing. This is a meeting of friends and we should dress as such. Let the males crimp themselves up, we do too much of that for their formal BS."

The ice is shattered, females head up stairs to change into comfortable clothing. They send their Betas off to do the same. Before long the house is full of sweats and blue jeans, tee shirts and bare feet. "Drinks and food are on the house so help yourself to the kitchen and the bar". A cheer goes up and the party begins. Pictures of pup and special events are being passed around. Commiserations on teething, terrible 2's, school projects, and graduations float about the room. As does advice on everything from pups to handling stubborn mates to getting stains off the ceiling. Luna K and N have locked themselves in one of the bedrooms and refuse to come out until we begin to be formal again.

"Aren't you Kitritage's Beta?"

"Yes", the female is stocky and looks damn uncomfortable in her uniform blouse, skirt, and blazer.

"Don't you want to change?" She has become a point of focus and she hates it.

"Yes."

"But you can't because your Luna is a wimpy wussy."

"My Luna is a..."

"Look, we know all about your Luna and your Alpha. They're not mates, your Alpha has never sought his mate. This is his third Luna."

I am shocked, "I didn't think that was possible in the wolf world."

"It's not common, the Goddess frowns on it. It's incredibly hard to get pregnant with anyone other than your mate. But if you're looking for a Luna who just wants the title and none of the power. Well." Alpha Female Brocklege would know she was an Alpha from birth. That birth pre dated our country.