FIA
I snorted before I could stop myself. The sound came out sharper than I intended, but I didn't take it back.
"The pack of Omegas," I said. "The one that got exterminated."
Morrigan nodded.
"I'm sure you know how the story goes then," she said. "My husband was part of the Alphas urged by the Alpha King and Queen to settle the mess."
I did know. Everyone knew. It was the kind of story that got told at dinner tables and in Pack halls, always framed the same way. A cautionary tale. A warning about what happened when the natural order was disrupted.
The Omega-only packs had Omega leaders. That was the first thing every wolf learned about them. And that was the thing that made them illegal under true hierarchy. Not because they were dangerous. They weren't. Not really. It was because they threatened the very structure the whole system was built on. Alpha at the top. Beta in the middle. Omega at the bottom. That was how it had always been. That was how it was supposed to stay.
