BELLE This wasn’t the first time Stary Pack red-teamed another pack’s patrol before, but it was the first time we’d done it without the patrol knowing it was happening. Usually, this was run as a training exercise with consent. My dad started letting me go along on these tests of a pack’s security measures when I started high school, but this was the first time I’d been allowed to participate. My mom wasn’t excited to let me do this because the patrol wouldn’t know not to seriously hurt or kill us if things went wrong. But, as much as Dad still treated me like his baby girl, he wanted to let me get some experience, and this was a rare opportunity for it to be real. As much as I wanted to be professional and prove that I was a warrior like my dad, my mom, and Aunt Nic, they put me with A