Luther was a temperamental asshole, and had stormed out after an argument with Cal. He wasn't at home and he wasn't at the butcher shop and he wasn't answering his phone, so the Pack had to go on a city-wide wolf hunt for him. It was pretty immature for an Alpha, if you asked Dem anyways.
Dem wandered to a spot where you could usually find the Alpha-male after a tantrum, an playground, long abandoned in favor of a newer, sturdier one. The swings that remained were rusted and squeaked, the merry-go-round was jammed with sticks and rocks, the old-fashioned slides with ladders were covered in graffiti and the spring animals one rocked back and forth on had been chipped of paint, the blank features looking rather ghoulish. It was a terrible place to play, but it wasn't a bad place to go and light a cigarette.
Coming up empty on his search, the rotting picnic table Luther frequented being vacant, Dem turned to leave, but for a moment he heard giggling. He froze in his tracks, looking over the empty playground again. Where had that noise come from? It was late, almost midnight, far too late for any child to be out playing. He ventured slowly into the rocky gravel that made for the floor of the playground, feeling as if he were in a horror movie. "Hello?" He called into the darkness, "Anybody here?"