<span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">It was way too soon for Cyrus to be feeling as stressed as he was. He'd been preparing to take his father's place for the majority of his life. It wasn't a sudden and unexpected responsibility set upon him. So, why couldn't he shake the sudden weight pressing down on his chest? No, it had to be something else. For the time being he blamed his irritability on the lack of a good night's sleep. <br/>
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And apparently he wasn't making an effort to mask it, if the concerned frown Vick threw his way was anything to go by.<br/>
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Forcing himself to keep still in his seat, he focused on Preston's opening words as he reached for the stack of manila folders sat in front of him. An organized compilation of the current meeting agenda, schedules, updates, the pack’s most recent financial statements, to do lists. Flipping open the blue folder to the page of the most recent security changes, that included a detailed map of the pack lands and where the aforementioned motion sensors and cameras were installed, Cy picked up a fountain pen. Jotting down notes in the margins as he listened.<br/>
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For a few brief seconds his mind had calmed, the worst of his irritation settling. But then his father's name was brought up; out of Jaymus' mouth just to make matters worse, and that simmering anger flared to life. The pen in his hand snapping in two as he glared across the table at the other man. "<i>Ben</i> isn't the Alpha anymore.” While he may have managed to keep his voice level there was no missing the volatile edge in his tone, “And who said anything about putting our security into the hands of technology?” It was a particular area of contention between father and son. Ben wanting nothing to do with technology, mistrustful of anything new that he didn't immediately understand. And Cy constantly pointing out that technology wasn't as it once was, and why they should be keeping up with the times. Needless to say, they didn’t see eye to eye, and had gotten into plenty heated arguments over it. <br/>
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“Our security teams can't cover every corner of our borders all of the time. The motion sensors and cameras are an additional precaution. But Ben's a stubborn old wolf trapped in his ways."</span>