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Eivind was detached, as usual. Bored even, as they crossed the many miles that would take them to Lofgren's pack. It wasn't his job to clean up the mess they made, but Sieger had ordered it, and it was easier to comply than it was to fight with the alpha. They traveled on foot, in their werewolf forms. It was at least nice to stretch his legs, but he was not looking forward to the confrontation with Lofgren.<br/>
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Sieger was calm and collected as always, and Synnove was keyed up already, itching for a fight. Lofgren must have got wind of them, because he met them not too far into his territory, posturing and glaring. Sieger kept his mate calm, determined to finish this with the least amount of bloodshed possible. He expected Lofgren to meet him with a little more aggression, but the other alpha was surprisingly more calculated. Sieger understood why when he came face to face with the rest of the pack. Two males were wounded, and of course Jamsen was nowhere to be found. They would be outmatched, and Lofgren, even with his size and strength, couldn't fight all of them.<br/>
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“I think you know why we're here,” Sieger started. Lofgren had already been warned about attacking hikers. Synnove stepped closer to Eivind and told him to go find the human. She wanted her brother near, should all hell break loose, and Eivind was mostly unobtrusive, but could still hold his own. He wouldn't go looking for a fight like some of the others. He would do no more, and no less than what he'd been asked to do. He turned, leaving them to deal with Lofgren, hoping that it wouldn't escalate.<br/>
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Tracking the human was another matter entirely. He could smell him all over, in zigzagging paths which confused him initially. He finally locked on to the freshest human scent, which was blood, and followed it to a dingy cabin in the center of Lofgren's territory. He transformed at the doorway before letting himself inside, unsure if the human would even be alive upon reaching him. He could smell his ill-health, nose wrinkling as he stepped closer to the bed. The boy was either sleeping or dead, but a gentle touch to the neck told him it was the former. He stank of sickness and rut, and for some reason the idea of this was starting to make him angry for reasons he couldn't initially pinpoint. He didn't want to move him, and confusion drew his brow together. He'd known what the plan was. Hell, he even offered to be the one to finish the boy off when it came to it, but his stomach was twisting itself into knots, and suddenly he understood.<br/>
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He'd never felt that gentle pull to someone before. Not any of his pack mates, certainly never a human. He wondered initially if the scent he was picking up was someone elses on the boy. He smelled like many, but carefully, he took a seat on the edge of the filthy bed, and touched the young man's face. That pull was there again, a stronger pulse this time, and Eivind couldn't believe his awful luck. He was pushing thirty, and he'd thought the time for him to pair up, at least in the traditional sense was long past. The elders told him he would know when it came to it, but likely he'd deviated from his path so much so that his mate would never find their way to him. Punishment, because Eivind shirked his duties as alpha.<br/>
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This was a worse punishment.<br/>
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Eivind put his hand on the young man's collar bone, and watched the door. He showed nothing outwardly, but internally his emotions were raging with instinct. He didn't want to look at the young man, even though he did. Touching him was enough to keep him still, at least for now. Eivind knew he was his, yet his scent spoke of so many other things. Footsteps on the porch brought him out of his thoughts, sending him almost into a frenzy.<br/>
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It was Alaric, coming to find him and the human most likely. Eivind had taken a stance in front of the bed that betrayed his usual nature.<br/>
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“Get out,” Eivind snarled, his words full of warning. Alaric didn't move, confused by this turn of events, and Eivind took a purposeful step towards him, intent to follow through. Eivind was never so direct; never so sure, and aggressive. Alaric knew then what he was doing, but not his reasons why. He left Eivind to it, to return to his sister, and their alpha.<br/>
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“He's finally gone mad, I think. He wouldn't let me near the boy at all,” Alaric explained with a little shrug.<br/>
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