Lacking Humanity|Blue Moon

Chapter Sixteen

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Arctic Crest hadn't left without leaving temporary housing, and it was perfect. Blake didn't mind the tepees near his home, it aided those who would be moving to Arctic Crest anyhow to get used to this type of housing.

However, Sage was downright adoring her Delta female, and when Aurora had come to the Alpha's house with a bite on her neck—Sage couldn't hold back.

She was so excited with a full Alpha team with all her positions being filled. Her Beta and Delta now mated, meant she had her own clan of females.

But what Sage adored was Aurora as a sparing partner. Either were very competitive, and Jack even mentioned that it felt like both females were on the same wire every time they entered the ring together.

Sage didn't lose often, neither did Aurora. So the ties that kept coming out were unnatural, though, in the former Arctic Crest member's eyes, she adored her Luna just as much as the Luna adored her.

This morning commenced the first time all the females had sat in a room—a meeting, to look over the rogue sightings in both human and pack territories. It made Sage's wolf swoon at how complete the pack felt now.

So while the males did their tasks, the females had their own. It was a perfect balance that Crescent Moon had been lacking. Before Sage had come, there was no Gamma, neither Beta nor Delta had a mate.
And Remus had a whinny Omega whispering in his ear.

Had this happened without any aid, or the partnership of Mystic Grimm and White Paw, Remus worried that he would've been screwed the moment the war had been declared.

But playing 'what ifs' wasted time, what they needed to figure out was what were the rogues doing, if there was a pattern. And they had to fight against the impending movement of Coldridge.

They were silent as of late, but that meant a multitude of things. Plotting, for one.

Or it meant that everything big will come following winter, most of them would be battling a harsh winter after all. The Summit agreed with one another that they wouldn't be the ones attacking first either, Sage had enough witnesses to the phone call that Coldridge was the one to declare war after her questioning.

She had given them every opportunity to submit, but they hadn't.

"Luna? What is this one mean? It's just abbreviated as 'Ceremony'." Aurora questioned, handing Sage the paper she was looking over. After a quick scan, Sage followed by explaining that her Luna ceremony had ended early after the alcoholic beverages were tainted with silver liquid and rogues attacked.

"What?" Jules breathed out, scrolling through the form on her laptop and staring at it.
"That's when Remus and Papa Leo find out I'm Alpha Female, because I don't listen to Remus in staying with the pups. I take all the wolves that can shift to go and fight."

The females around her all looked to one another, and it would've made Sage feel out of place had Jules not pushed the laptop ready with an explanation.

"Each pack had an attack that week. Even those in Coldridge, all except—" Sage gripped the screen and choked out the final word that Jules was about to say.

"Why don't rogues attack Moon Valley? They say pack members are dying but not how. They're not dying of rogues." Sage questioned the group on a building theory.

"No, they haven't made any records with the council that they've had a rogue problem in the last...Six years." Sage nodded to Jesse's explanation, while Jules continued to make a document on the screen in front of them.