REINER
When I woke up, I did so with an immense sense of ... peace.
I hadn't opened my eyes yet, but I could hear the birds singing and chirping, the gentle gurgling of the creek, the scents of the forest outside ... and the warm body of my wife in my arms.
Home.
I was home, in my kingdom, with my Luna beside me. Soon, too soon, my duties would claim me, taking away most of the day - but I'd perform them with pleasure. It was my pack, and I loved it - and I loved serving my people.
Leading and serving was not just my job - it was my calling, the one thing I felt I was born to do, and it was the best way I could honor my father's memory.
Meanwhile, however ... in this brief moment between night and day ... I was not the Alpha. I did not have the responsibility of all those lives on my
