battlefield, they had ended up losing about three of their soldiers. They were all sad. In the end, they had sent the rogues away but they knew it was only temporary. The rogues w

r into the pack house. It was her mother. She was going to go soak In a bath, to maybe wash away the gore from the war. She was relieved when she climbed into the tub. Tired and eager to have a bed beneath her. She was exhausted and she showed visible signs of exhaustion. She did not hear her mother berating her and she did not hear the harsh words that came with her scolds. She thought she heard something new in her mother's tone. Admiration. Pride. She was proud of her for being brave and resilient.. As Audrey stumbled into bed that morning to make up for the sleep she lost during the night, she felt better than she had been earlier when she had learnt of the death of the three soldiers. **** The Beta, Kade was with the Alpha all day as they deliberated on issues over issues. The Alpha, Austin had always been a fighter. A warrior who had not lost his appetite for war and was still as good as he had been when he was younger than he was. He was forty two and heavily built to give the intimidating aura but he had refrained from war in the past two years because the Beta had often told him, "Alphas do not go out to war so they do not get hurt. If you lost your life in a battle, the enemies will overcome us and we do not want that", And the Alpha had thought there was a wealth of Wisdom in the words. Maybe indeed, if he lost his life in the battlefield, it will make his people disoriented and then the enemies will be able to penetrate them in their grief. He decided to listen and do just as his Beta had told him. When the rogues had first attacked, they had been fewer and that had made it easy for his soldiers to send them away. When they had returned some time later, they had been even more and had come with more sophisticated weapons, their aim to gain access into the Burning Mountain pack and loot the diamond which was the only precious stone and asset they possessed in plethora. It had been like that for sometime and the Alpha had contemplated leading the battle himself and seeing that the Rogues where totally eradicated but for the words of his Beta who happened to also be his adviser and giver of wise counsels. The rogues joined forces everytime to make sure they came back stronger but not once had they been able to penetrate or loot the gems that motivated them to come always to the Burning Mountain pack. "You should not lead the army, my lord. The leader of the army is competent eno