ALPHA DEMETRIUS POV
"Alpha Demetrius, in attendance on this day, are the six judges you are standing before, whom you've pledged to adhere to their fair verdict. Alpha Marc, Alpha Jared, Alpha Atticus....." The voices were distancing into muteness as silence and emptiness replaced my presence and I became engulfed in my thought and entirely absent-minded about where I was (at the courthouse, in the middle of the ice forest, before the clan's court members that I assigned) or what was happening (having me confessing my part in what happened)
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"She's just a small girl. She's just eighteen. She didn't get to live as many lives as he did. She is my baby... She's just a baby." Athena was wrenchingly crying, protecting the heads of our two sons to her chest in an embrace, with fear in her
