Sitting quietly at his throne, King Leonidas sat patiently, listening to his advisor reading out the numbers on the casualty list for the last four days of fighting. They had been at war with the Kes'nal shape shifters for almost six months now, and they were losing. "Your Highness," he says quietly, "We have lost three villages just this morning, all across the eastern ranges, the men either killed, or sent running back to us with a tally of the number of females taken." Swallowing nervously, he continued, "And they have started taking females of any age, including newborns."<br/><br/>Leonidas knew it couldn't be helped, that his advisor was only the messenger in that last fact, but it angered him so much, that he was almost instantly in a blind rage and had him executed where he stood. "We need to find an end to this war. We are losing, but I will not surrender every woman and her daughter in this land to those barbarians!" he shouts, the people outside the palace hearing it as it echoed through every room.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>In the cave that served as the forward command for those from the shape shifters, They sat, squatting down in a form the humans would call a werewolf, but to them was simply comfortable when needing to be in their position. "Alpha, we took six villages this week, three this morning alone. The warriors are bringing back every female they find, stripping everyone to ensure that women are not disguising themselves as men. As an added.... Fear inspiring move, we also leave a couple of men alive, sending them running to their king with the number of females we took, as well as how many men we killed." says one, the others murmering quietly.<br/><br/>"Their king will soon have no choice but to see that we will get what we need, that we will not stand by and let our race become extinct." Says Ash'ta'mae, the Alpha of the Kes'nal nation, a race of shape-shifting creatures of human origin. Each village was it's own pack, with it's own Alpha, but he was the one in charge of them all.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>