Slade It was a solid month of peace and quiet. His father left him alone. All their fathers left them alone, in fact. They trained as a unit as expected, and he attended border patrol as per his rostered schedule. Studied pack related business things, and discussed attending mating balls with his mother. It was to start on the next full moon, she’d told him. He was often seen walking about with his earbuds in when not with Palmer or Yuri, just practicing his Mandarin. It stopped his mother and father from interacting with him, unless it was absolutely necessary. He’d had an omega go and collect Oriana’s things from the Beta’s family suite, which had not gone over so well with Anders and Bronnie, but he’d refused to relinquish them back to those two. Stated point blankly to their faces “

