There’s already an excited rumble rippling through the pack, anticipation heavy in the air as the members gather around, impatient for the ceremony to begin. They’re positioned at the bottom of a hill, the pack forming a semicircle around eight kneeling figures, all of whom are nude, save for painted symbols meant to bestow luck and fertility upon those that bear them.
Levi, one of the eight, picks his head up to glance towards the apex of the hill and the cave that resides there - a den really, where the alpha packmaster resides with his mate and pups. There’s no movement yet, but he knows it’s only a matter of time before Elias will emerge and descend upon himself and the other omegas in his wolfskin in order to assess them and see if any are worthy enough to be his mate, and also to see if Elias himself is worthy to claim the title of packmaster.
All the omegas are tense, aware that they are each in competition with one another, and the air seems to thicken with their ripe, fertile scent as their pheromones work to stand out above the rest. It makes Levi’s inner wolf want to pace and snarl, to show that he is the most suited, but the omega holds himself back, even as the pack suddenly seems to fall silent, and something stirs within the depths of the cave.
The ritual has begun.
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