—Somwhere at Stormrest (The Second Fortress Wall)—
Alpha Thorne Valka, of the Valka Pack considered himself a distinguished man.
After all, in the whole of Vraga, not many possessed a Supreme Wolf as he did. Nor many ruled a pack of hundreds of thousands like he did in the West.
Yet even the highest of men must still fall to that one true power—and for every Alpha, high and low, in Vraga, that true power was the North.
Valka might rule over a pack of thousands, but compared to the tens of millions united together in the North by the NorthSteed family, his numbers teemed with insignificance.
By consequence, Malric NorthSteed was that true power he had no choice but to reckon with. Leading five centuries of prestige, and possessing a wolf just as old, not even a mad man would have no choice but to revere the young Alpha King.
That was why when he called for their presence in the North, they had no choice but to answer.
