Chapter 9. Kings and Queens (2)

Rafe

Kris stalks off in another direction, leaving Zeke and I to walk along together. “You know, I did some reading when I got back to the castle last night. After the war, the Alpha King of Longclaw was put to death. He only had one child, a son, and he went into hiding after being persecuted by everyone, even his own kind. The Blacks have only had power for a few generations, and I’m not sure they’re handling the situation well. They seem to be more tyrannical than necessary.”

I agree with his assessment, but I’m not sure what I can do about it. The area that used to be Longclaw is vast, with several hundred villages in it. Beoutown is just one of those villages. Most of the leaders in those communities came to power after the war, not before it, because the central leaders who were loyal to the Alpha King, who happened to live in Beoutown, were taken out of power.

They were Alphas then, not mayors, and this Alpha King ruled over all of them. I