Title: Redamancy
Word Counts: Oneshot, 30k
Pairing: Chanyeol/Baekhyun
Rating: NC-17
Warning(s): ABO dynamics, SMUT like woha, dub-con, brief mention of incest, brief mention of murder, mentioned mpreg, underage Baekhyun, huge but irrelevant age gap
Disclaimer:The celebrities' names/images are merely borrowed and do not represent who the celebrities are in real life. No offense is intended towards them, their families or friends. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No money is being made from this fictional work. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Baekhyun had a few dreams, those that hadn't been crushed once he had realized that as an Omega he wouldn't end up a fighter like most children did. He wanted a family, a mate, someone who'd care for him and love him. He thought he was humble enough. But when he turned sixteen and was given away to a wild pack of wolves to serve under a new Alpha, Baekhyun feared his little dreams would slip through his fingers as he desperately clutched them in his shaking hands.
*the summary is a bit misleading. Besides being cute, Baekhyun is also a little shit.
Two Alphas and one Beta were the reception committee on neutral grounds exactly a week after Baekhyun's first heat.
They stood motionless near the northern end of the small clearing where they had agreed to meet, their postures alert and tense. Technically, they were allied packs since the day Baekhyun had been born, but wolves were unpredictable. No one was surprised by their defensive stance, nor the ridiculous amount of escorts accompanying Baekhyun.
They were clad in pelts and skins, their bodies hard and toned, smudged with dirt and mud, sweat and blood. Slightly dazed from the last phase of his passing heat, Baekhyun shuddered in his thin linen, his crisp-clean skin feeling tingly and especially sensitive when he picked up the musky and salty scent coming from the members of the other pack.
Around him, the Alphas and Betas that made up his escort were tensing, their reaction to the other wolves so different from Baekhyun's that the young Omega felt like laughing for a second. Another whiff of the earthy scent made him bite back a moan instead, but a choked little sound still escaped his trembling lips, which had every pair of eyes immediately turning and resting on him.
Baekhyun flinched nervously and felt his stomach lurching as heat pooled and churned low in its pit. As the only submissive in an increasingly aggression-tinted situation full of dominants he felt his hackles raising and his toes curling in his slippers, his shoulders hunching slightly. The small wolf within him was whimpering as it pressed its ears close to its skull. With his tail between his legs, his own body curled up low inside Baekhyun's soul, eyes squeezed shut.
Baekhyun's own eyes flickered quickly over the tall line of the three foreign wolves, before he blinked and averted his gaze back to the ground. The fleeting glance had been enough to make his skin pulse with heat, the bones of his body trembling in his flesh as he stumbled along and across the clearing.
Around him, his escorts were drawing closer as if they sensed him getting weaker the nearer they got to the three waiting wolves. Baekhyun was hyper aware of his pack members' eyes on him and tried his best to fight his body's treacherous reaction to the unwashed scent of the two foreign Alphas. Cheeks tinting pink with both embarrassment and the flush of heat surging through his body, Baekhyun knew that he wasn't fooling anyone when his knees nearly gave way as he took another lungful of raw Alpha scent.
It was unlike anything he'd ever smelled before, as his birth pack's territory was at the outer ends of the deep forests and close to the human city suburbs. The majority of the pack lived in houses with electricity and running water with only a small part of the dominants stationed outside in the light woods near the housings as patrolling protection. Due to their close proximity to the human world they abided to human hygiene and appearance, everyone's hair short, trimmed skin clean and smelling herbal or floral, nails cut down and their food cooked most of the time.
Baekhyun knew from the few times he had seen wild wolves that their way of living was repulsive to them- it was obvious in the way they had looked disdainfully at everyone and everything when they had sent representatives to formally cross territories. To others, their short hair was an open invitation to attack vulnerable throats, their nails were seen as trimmed claws of docile wolves. Their herbal and flowery scents masked natural indicators of dominance and submission and made their Alphas especially lose their faces in the law of nature.
Baekhyun saw the same repulsion and contempt in the three foreign faces as they watched his escorts. But as soon as any of them slid a glance at him cold eyes hardened with something akin to want. All the apparent disgust on their faces gone and replaced with perhaps a harsher form of longing ...or something similar to it at least.
Baekhyun wasn't a stranger to lustful glances thrown at him, but the open approval of his usually scorned at flower-herbal scented body was adding to the strong sense of ownership the three foreign wolves emitted as Baekhyun stepped closer.
Baekhyun shuddered and averted his eyes when one of the Alphas caught him staring, but the sudden pulse of dominant arousal in the air was enough to make his feet stumble.
He whimpered, eyes squeezing shut in self-loathing almost immediately after. The scent had his bones turning to jelly and two of his escorts had to grab him quickly to prevent him collapsing onto the ground.
They were so close to the three foreigners that Baekhyun could hear them growl low in warning even over the sound of his own choked gasps falling from his open mouth. Technically Baekhyun still belonged to his birth pack until he was handed over by the representative leading Alpha, but in reality everyone knew that Baekhyun was already owned by another pack. Which was the reason why his escorts' hands on his body were unwanted, even though Baekhyun needed them to steady himself for the last few meters separating the two packs.
It was when they were standing right in front of the three tall wolves, their heady potent scent encasing all of Baekhyun's senses that the young Omega almost lost what little control he had left over his trembling body. Carnal lust was pulsing in his veins and Baekhyun tensed when he felt the heat in his body intensifying.
Horrified, he pressed his eyes shut in distress when he felt his limbs numbing. It was instinct, Baekhyun knew with fading coherency, that had him collapsing low on the ground in submission, but he gritted his teeth, unwilling to give in to his body's weakness in front of strangers and stayed upright -albeit twitching and shuddering. When he opened his eyes he saw his efforts had brought a small scoff on the lips of one of the three wolves in front of him.
It was the tall Beta, which was probably the only reason Baekhyun didn't crumple to the ground right then and there. An Alpha's glare would have been unbearable this close- Baekhyun already had trouble breathing properly as he felt his body cracking under the pressure of the dominance flaring all around him.
He whimpered and curled a little into himself, hating his wrecked body and the raw onslaught of his own survival instincts forcing him into submission to please and soothe the aggressive wolves around him.
It wasn't fair, not when he had to suffer like this, not when there wasn’t a single goddamned Alpha taking care of him, not when there was no knot soothing the freaking burn in his-
Baekhyun shuddered and gasped, annoyed with himself and the world as he breathed down another lug-full of dominant scent heavy air.
The heady mixture of Alpha scent and testosterone in the air was swirling in his mind, dazing him and leaving him weak and vulnerable, his own sweet scent seeping from his pores and mixing with the floral scent of his skin.
Baekhyun saw through blurry vision how the line of Alphas and Betas from his birth pack tensed when the two unfamiliar Alphas craned their necks and stepped forward as a reaction to the sudden Omega scent in the air. When their gazes met, Baekhyun saw how their eyes were wide open and filled with raw want, their pupils dilated and the thick muscles of their necks flexed in tension.
It was the tall Beta that eased the tension- naturally, as Baekhyun's scent didn't affect him as much as it wrecked the two Alphas beside him. Baekhyun knew that the only reason a Beta had been ordered to fetch him along with the Alphas was because the Alphas of the wild pack hadn't tied with him yet and therefore made it necessary for a collected Beta in control of his instincts to perform the formal necessaries and polite pleasantries between packs.
All the Alphas and some of the Betas that made up his escort had bedded him during his first heat, which was why his Omega scent hardly had an effect on them anymore- they had all pleased their beasts within.
This advantage of control over their inner wolves was easily predictable, Baekhyun knew, which was why there were two Alphas accompanying the wild Beta- to protect, both their packmate and what rightfully belonged to them, Baekhyun.
Baekhyun gasped when the heat in his body tightened his stomach and pulsed in his nether regions. He fell onto the ground, his shaking hands gripping grass while the tips of his fingers dug into the soft soil. The dominant wolves around him hardly spared him a glance, too concentrated and tense for the imminent exchange to care for the Omega giving in to his instincts and carnal desires.
Baekhyun was thankful for the ignorance, uninterested in an audience as his eyes fluttered shut and his cheeks tinted a deep shade of pink as he started rutting subtly against the hard ground, his teeth biting onto his bottom lip to muffle the small cries and whines that he desperately wanted to keep from spilling in front of three strangers.
From somewhere above him he heard the tall Beta talking to his escort's leading Alpha and he shivered at the gravely low voice, only realizing then that the formal introductions and greetings had already been exchanged.
He blended out the voices negotiating and repeating the benefits and oaths that were promised between the two packs sixteen years ago when he had been born, instead gripped his hands tighter into the grass as he sat up on his knees, spreading his legs and lifting his hips for better friction. He only snapped out of his daze when a large hand gripped his chin and forced him to tilt his head back. Blinking against the brightness of the sunlit clearing, Baekhyun's eyes widened when he looked right into the tall Beta's handsome face.
The wolf was checking on him, his unoccupied hand sliding down Baekhyun's curves to cup his behind and Baekhyun gasped when broad fingers slipped under his thin and short tunic to press in between his tensing ass cheeks. Calloused fingertips slid up and down his cleft, before pressing sightly into his body and Baekhyun moaned, his hips rocking back helplessly as his rim twitched and fluttered around the probing finger.
When the Beta pulled his hand out from under Baekhyun's tunic, the tips of his fingers were wet, coated in slick and Baekhyun almost sobbed in arousal. He choked on a moan instead, when the hand on his chin tightened and send sharp lightning of pain and pleasure down his spine and chest to pool low in his abdomen.
Baekhyun felt his asshole pulsing and more slick oozing out of him when the tall Beta rubbed the tips of his wet fingers against each other only to spread them a moment later, beads of slick hanging in between the digits in heavy webs before breaking down in thick droplets. Baekhyun felt his last bit of sanity bidding him goodbye when the Beta took one of his wet fingers into his mouth to lick the Omega's scent off his digit.
The wild wolf's eyes flashed amber for a small second, before black bled into his pupils and turned them dark again. Baekhyun's own dazed eyes widened at that, his heart rate picking up and his mouth dropping open. Before he could even form a sound of confusion at the back of his throat the hand on his chin loosened and he was pressed firmly against the Beta's warm and hard body.
Gasping and panting damp air against the skin of the Beta's broad and muscular chest, Baekhyun shuddered when he tried to make sense of what he saw. But he couldn't, because his mind was dizzy and heavy with arousal again and nothing made much sense anymore. A flicker of amber flashed in his thoughts again and he squirmed, confused and a little bit frustrated with himself, too. What he saw was impossible and a trick of the setting sun or his weakened sanity, but his mind wouldn't let go of it.
Baekhyun whined, but the Beta slid his free hand up to the back of the Omega's head and pressed him immobile against his chest. Baekhyun muffled another whine against the man's skin and listened with difficulty and only through a heavy haze to the deep voice rumbling above his head.
"How many helped him through his first heat?"
Baekhyun heard his escort's leading Alpha scoffing before answering, the man's voice full of disdain, yet forced politeness. "We didn't know that you expected us to keep count."
Baekhyun felt the hands on his body tightening at the same time he heard two unfamiliar Alphas left and right from him growling low in warning. He only realized that he was in between the wild wolves now instead of behind the line of his birth pack's members when the tall Beta stroked a soothing and large palm from Baekhyun's neck down along his spine. The haze cleared for a moment and Baekhyun saw that he was encased by the wild wolves' scent as they circled him protectively- keeping him safe from his birth pack he realized, which shook him out of his daze for long enough to release a distressed cry.
He had been handed over to the wild wolves already without noticing it and fear and panic had him choking so hard that the Beta gripped his chin again and made him look up at him in both warning and concern.
"Breathe." Was muttered to him in a low tone, and even though Baekhyun wasn't part of their pack yet, his body obeyed the gravelly voice almost immediately. Gasping and spluttering, Baekhyun squeezed his eyes shut and concentrated on breathing, not even realizing that his fingers clutched hard on the Beta's warm skin.
He was pressed back against the safety of the Beta's chest as soon as he calmed down enough to breathe decently again. Baekhyun kept his eyes shut as he instinctively leaned closer to the protective warmth and power of the body that held him. His head was hurting and he felt reality slipping behind the dazing swirl of his instincts again, but it was welcomed this time as the Omega felt his fear dulling down and the cold panic diluting in his blood.
He was vaguely aware of his nostrils twitching as he inhaled more and more of the strong and musky scent that was now the only thing he could smell, and he realized that he was rubbing his face against the Beta's skin, trying for closer and wanting more. He felt himself sliding his cheeks across the hard chest in search of a more potent source of the heady scent, his mouth open and his lips rubbing wet against salty skin as he sniffed and searched with his eyes closed.
When Baekhyun had his nose buried in the warm curve of the Beta's damp armpit, he felt himself leaking even more slick, his hips jerking as he couldn't help but rut softly against the Beta's flexed thigh. The heavy and warm scent that rested under the Beta's arm was coiling the heat inside of his stomach and making him moan helplessly in arousal, as it was also near and strong enough to drown out the potent Alpha scent around him. It helped him to focus- at least enough to be aware of what was going on around him.
The Beta was still petting him, his large hands sliding up and down his body soothingly, while the two wild Alphas stood tense and attentive beside them. Baekhyun's birth pack was standing close in a line and when he leaned backwards for a lung-full of clean air, he saw them all looking at him and the Beta holding him, with disgust and resignation in their eyes.
Baekhyun shuddered and quickly pressed back against the Beta, happy to feel the tall man's arms tightening around his body as he pressed his small face back against the Beta's armpit.
Slick was still pulsing out of his twitching asshole, wet and sticky, uncomfortable as it slid between his naked thighs and ass cheeks. As he rubbed his abdomen against the motionless Beta, Baekhyun realized that his cock was hard and leaking too- adding to the uncomfortable heat and wetness he felt under the damp folds of his tunic.
He whined and arched up in the Beta's hold desperate for a touch to stop the aching madness pulsing through his senses, but the Beta shushed him calmly, hands rubbing circles on his back and Baekhyun curled against his strong chest with a whimper.
He hiccuped when he felt the burn in his body intensifying painfully and he clutched the Beta's skin tightly with his pale fingers. His wet lips opened to mouth at the salty skin next to the dominant man's armpit, rosy tongue licking away sweat and tangy warmth it found there, before Baekhyun closed his mouth around a bit of flesh to suck pathetically. He was so turned on that he felt like going crazy, but somewhere at the back of his mind he knew that no Alpha would knot him as long as his birth pack was still close enough to watch him getting mounted.
"Did any of your Alphas knot him?" The Beta asked, but Baekhyun was too far gone to listen to his birth pack's answer.
Of course no one knotted him, he thought, frustrated, which was exactly why he was sucking on a wild wolf's sweaty skin and rutting the man's thick thighs like an animal, even though his heat was over since a week. Without a thick Alpha cock knotting and breaking it though, Baekhyun was doomed to heat up, leak and offer himself up to potential dominants as if he was ovulating all over again. His body was craving for knot, his insides churning and shuddering with the need to fill up and carry his first litter. Until that primal need was sedated, Baekhyun was doomed and hopeless, condemned to leak and moan until eventually the fever of the heat would eat him up from inside and leave him withering and burning to ash.
Usually Omegas were too rare and precious to be left alone long enough to even suffer through minor pain of heat, but Baekhyun had been forbidden to be knotted, while additionally he had been physically unable to get moved into his new pack before the peak of his heat had passed.
With all the Alphas of his birth pack keeping their knots out of his body, Baekhyun's first heat had been a nightmare, though the endless rounds of sex with various packmates had been nice. Sex was always nice to him though, ever since he had lost his virginity a couple of years before his first heat. He had also known most of the eager Alphas from the years they had grown up together before he had turned Omega and it had been easy and fun to lie with them. Most of them had bedded him before, though the addition of his heat scent had resulted in a sudden improvement of their skills and libido- something a nose scrunching Baekhyun had appreciated while being pressed into the soft forest ground.
Baekhyun had not been a virgin since the day he had started emitting his Omega scent right when he had turned 14. One second he had been lounging between his parents at their home, and then the next thing he knew was his six years older and unmated Alpha brother mounting him roughly in the middle of their living room.
Having his older brother deflower him had been quite the experience, though not too uncommon, and Baekhyun hadn't been too upset about it as Baekbeom guiltily had spoiled him rotten afterwards. Though he had been thankful for his father's composure as an already mated Alpha back in the moment, after Baekbeom had spilled his cum inside his ass and left it wide open for the next Alpha to claim.
It was one thing to get mounted by the young pack wolves he grew up with, but he had hoped and unofficially demanded from the older unmated packmates to keep their distance to hold up human morals as long as he wasn't fertile. Two years later, when his first heat had hit, though, it ironically had been Baekbeom -now a mated Alpha and father of two and thus unaffected by Baekhyun's scent- to hold back their raging father -now a mateless widower- from mounting his own Omega son.
Even through the immense pain and heat surging through his body, Baekhyun had felt almost physically hurt by the lack of sanity in his father's raging eyes and then the shame as soon as the man had realized what he had been about to do. But Baekhyun's heat pheromones were lethal, an all-kill of senses to any unbound Alpha, young and widowed or lone- even those biologically related to him.
Baekbeom had been the one to carefully pick up his younger brother from the floor and to carry him to head Alpha. Safe and protected from assaults while curled up in Baekbeom's arms, Baekhyun had been too out of it to hear even one word of the decisions that had been made for him. He had only snapped out of his painful haze when a while later he had been lowered to the ground in the middle of their forrest-territory only to have one unbound Alpha after another mount and fuck him through his heat, his body willingly opening up for them, taking it all and demanding more, but nothing ever enough to break the pain of the heat that had been surging through his body.
Baekhyun didn't remember much of his first week of heat, but he remembered the way his voice had sounded, desperate and hoarse and shrill and broken as he had begged and cried and screamed for the Alphas to knot him.
So no, he thought bitterly, of course no Alpha had knotted him- not with the way his womb belonged to his new pack's Alpha and no one else.
Baekhyun had a few dreams, those that hadn't been crushed once he had realized that as an Omega he'd never run fast enough or be strong enough to be a patrolling fighter like most children that grew up in his pack wanted to be.
Baekhyun wanted a family, a mate, someone who'd love him and put pups inside of him for him alone to take care of. Over the years, his dreams had only changed from the one providing to the one getting protected and looked after, but Baekhyun was fine with that. He had made his peace with his role in life long ago, but now that his body was calling for its purpose, Baekhyun needed someone to mate and knot him and to fill him up with a litter he could call his own.
It was instinct and his most inner wish since the day his family had broken apart, but after a week of purposeless sex his insides were screaming in pain and longing, and it was hard to keep back the tears that threatened to spill every time the flames of his heat licked through his veins and whispered of mate and children.
Baekhyun only snapped out of his pitiful musings when he heard a loud scoff from above him. From where he was still pressed against the Beta's body, Baekhyun heard his birth pack sneering as they answered, the atmosphere growing tenser by the minute. It had the Omega shivering in his new pack mate's arms, another whimper slipping from his mouth that was still sucking pathetically on the Beta's soft skin.
The Beta shushed him again and his large hands pressed firmly against the small of his back, forcing Baekhyun's lower body closer as he carefully rose to his feet. Baekhyun tightened his arms around the Beta's neck, but with a cry let go of the skin between his lips as gravity pulled him down. He whined, quickly pressing close again even when the Beta's arms stayed wrapped around his body to keep him safe and from falling down on his trembling legs.
Even while standing on the tip of his toes, Baekhyun hardly reached to the Beta's chin, but not having the man's salty taste on his tongue was torture and Baekhyun sobbed low in his throat as he weakly reached out, his legs trembling as he squeezed one between the Beta's powerful thighs to rut at least.
Slick was dribbling down the inside of his soft thighs, rubbing wet and glistening on the Beta's skin where it smudged dirt and other stains of their wild nature, dried blood and sweat and whatever else had marked their skin on their way to the outer ends of the deep forests to get Baekhyun.
Baekhyun felt vaguely disgusted, his own clean skin prickling and feeling oddly itching and vulnerable pressed against the hard body of his new packmate, but as he inhaled the heady mixture of the Beta's scent again he felt more slick wetting where he rubbed himself against the man's flexed thigh.
It was uncomfortably hot now and Baekhyun groaned weakly from where he pressed his face against the man's chest, eyes blinking lazily to the rhythm of his hips sliding back and forth. They immediately widen, hips stuttering, when he found the tip of his nose pressing right next to a nipple. He gasped, his warm and damp breath hitting the small nub just before Baekhyun's swollen lips closed around it to suck. The Beta shuddered and his hands on Baekhyun's body tightened.
Somewhere from beside him, Baekhyun heard someone cursing low, most likely one of the two wild Alphas, the voice sending shivers down Baekhyun's spine and making his hips roll faster against the Beta's thigh. He was out of control now and he knew it, but there was no modesty- not even shame left inside of him, the heat and urge to get knotted surging like fire through his system and burning everything else on its way, even his sanity.
The Beta pressed the slightest bit against his desperate hips and Baekhyun's eyes rolled back, his lips detaching from where they had clamped around the man's nipple to let out an incoherent moan.
"We should go now," Baekhyun heard the Beta say from somewhere above him, and even though he was incoherent and messy, his body couldn't help but shudder when one of the two Alphas growled low in his throat.
"I don't trust them," was spit at their direction and Baekhyun flinched and curled closer to the Beta at the venom in the voice.
The Beta rubbed Baekhyun's skin in comfort, his large hands gripping his body in a way that made Baekhyun feel safe despite the growls of the second Alpha joining in now.
"I ain't turning my back to those fuckers," this Alpha hissed and Baekhyun realized in his dizzy mind that they were talking about his birth pack.
Weird, he thought while another shudder ripped through his body and diverted his attention back to his bodily needs. Why would anyone distrust his birth pack? Weren't they allies now that he was made part of this wild pack?
Every thought about his birth pack flew out of his mind when a sudden wave of intense heat surged through his body and left him almost wrecked. He tightened his hold on the Beta as his stomach cramped in agony while his asshole clenched uselessly around air.
He moaned, his own fingers clutching at the Beta's warm skin as he leaned up and flat against the man's tall body. His legs trembled with effort as he balanced himself on his tiptoes, muffled cries escaping his lips as he rutted urgently against the Beta's flexed abdomen. It felt so good.
Baekhyun was too out of it to notice the Beta's dark eyes resting worriedly on his writhing form, but when the man bent down and hooked one of his strong arms under the inside of his knees to lift him up, Baekhyun cried out in distress and snapped his eyes wide open.
It took the Beta only a small moment to balance him in his arms, the Omega's small weight seemingly nothing to him. Baekhyun was quick to wrap his arms around the man's neck, clinging onto him while the Beta's other arm wrapped around his back, his large hand pressing against the soft dent of Baekhyun's armpit to keep him close to his chest.
Carried in the Beta's arms like this, Baekhyun's tunic slid up slightly, its backside hanging loose, presenting the Omega's wet ass to the eyes of those around him. He squirmed, cheeks heating up when he felt his slick sliding down his wet cleft to pool behind his balls, but the Beta tightened his grip on him and when Baekhyun looked up with feverish eyes he realized that neither the man nor anyone else was even looking at him.
Both packs were staring at each other, postures tense and offensive, and Baekhyun realized with a start that between his last coherent moment and now the atmosphere had changed into something even more hostile than before.
He craned his neck a little, resting his chin on the Beta's broad shoulder to look over it and at his birth pack, but the looks on the faces of the Alphas and Betas he grew up with were so distorted in disgust that he felt his stomach twisting painfully and quickly curled back against the safety of the Beta's chest.
He clenched his thighs- useless in the Beta's hold, but felt like doing it anyways, an instinct to become both as small as possible and to secrete more slick to have the aggression in the air turn to lust which would avoid a fight.
He realized too late that the only ones getting affected by his scent were his new packmates and only when one of the two wild Alphas gave a low groan and shot him a glare.
Baekhyun winced, his soul almost crumbling under the heat of it, but his scent had both Alphas finally backing off and agreeing to move. They backed down a little, moving closer to Baekhyun and their packmate, but their eyes stayed narrowed and their mouths wide open with all their teeth visible.
The Beta was the first one to turn around, tense but backed up by his Alpha comrades that followed backwards, never letting Baekhyun's birth pack out of their eyes. Baekhyun craned his neck again to look over the Beta's shoulder and cast a last glance at the people he grew up with, but the Beta made a warning sound, his arm shifting the weight of Baekhyun's upper body from his hand to the crook of his bent arm to reach out for his head and push it back down.
Baekhyun whined then, the first real pathetic sound of a distressed Omega that he allowed to slip in full consciousness to manipulate the Beta in letting him look at his damn family for a last time. Baekhyun gritted his teeth to suppress a pleased smile when the Beta winced and hastily let go of his head.
Baekhyun was free to stare at what he was leaving behind then, while he was kept motionless in the Beta's ungiving hold, and his eyes watered a little, Baekbeom's and his two children's faces flashing in front of his eyes as his new packmates slipped through the invisible border of territories behind the meeting clearing's tree line.
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