Chương 994: THE UNOFFICIAL MEETING MINUTES BY YOURS TRULY

DATE: 6 March Saturday Night

I was a little disappointed that nobody called the meeting "Bell's Butt Wiping Meeting." Even though the entire purpose of this meeting was to do that. At least according to Alpha James, the entire scandal was a "unforgivable laspe of judgement" solely on Bell's part.

Apparently, what made the whole coverage infinitely more unbearable was its bad timing. Bell's Investiture was only a couple of weeks away, and he absolutely could not afford the scandal. Alpha James was so mortified by his son's outrageous behavior that he had threatened to disown him if he didn't get his s*** cleaned up.

At least, this was how Ki reported it over the mindlink to the rest of my wolves at the meeting. Wolfgang had forced me to link up on the way up again. It was a good idea, I realized I could get a lot of useful information and support during meetings this way. I just never remembered to.

{Do not worry, Princess.} Wolfgang informed me when I commented on it. I had meant it as a by-the-way-ha-ha kind of comment, but Wolfgang took it to the next level as usual, {As your tutor, I will be here to remind you until it is ingrained into you like a second nature.}

I didn't know how to respond. I think I managed a, {Okay, thank you.}

Ki gave me a small bag of gummy bears to help me tide through the meeting, but I didn't think there were enough bears in the bag if this meeting was going to take 35 itemized discussion points like the Lorent meeting from earlier today.

I leaned over to check the agenda. Fluffy was scribe, so he had the document on his screen. Fluffy smiled and kindly tilted his screen for me to see better. I took a look, and then a second look because while Fluffy hadn't typed in lycan, it was exactly English either.

{Didn't Ben tell you to take the minutes in English?} I asked him over a private mindlink. The meeting was just starting, so Fluffy still had time to redo it.

{It is in English, Pretty Alpha.} Fluffy said.

Only if your English was the kind with ye, thou, wilt and shalt!

{You're making trouble for Harv.} I told Fluffy over the mindlink when I saw it.

{Don't worry pretty alpha. Big brother beta will get the notes from his Beta Father.} Fluffy was undaunted.

{Ben is gonna be mad at you.} I tried again to dissuade Fluffy from being a nuisance. I mean, I didn't really care if Ben got mad, but it didn't seem fair for Harvey to have to clean up all the time.

{I'm sure Scary Beta will be more than mad.} Fluffy smiled happily in anticipation, {Livid even.}

Anyway, as part of my efforts to not fall asleep in the meeting, I decided to supplement the gummy bears with my own attempt to write the minutes. If Fluffy could make his minutes in Anglo Saxon, I was allowed to make mine in Sam's More Exciting Version.

I started with the Meeting Attendance and listed everyon in VS format because that was more exciting than just listing them properly in order of pack and hierachy as Beta Gerald had done - he had the honor of having his screen projected for our reference. The Lorent's version of the minutes included everybody's full titles, so their Meeting Attendance Record was half a page long.

Of course the VS matching was done only in my head, and no real face off happened in the meeting, unfortunately. It was a very boring meeting, so much so that the attendance record (at least my version of it) was the most exciting thing in the meeting minutes.

Here is my Meeting Attendance Record. (I'm quite proud of it.)

THE PR GUYS

Lorent Delta holding PR portfolio: Delta Harrison Oran. (Aka Delta O.)

Night Leaf PR King: Beta Killion Oran. (Aka Beta Ki, Delta O's "favourite" nephew.)

THE OFFICIAL SECRETARIES

Lorent Secretary to the Alpha: Delta Jack Emerson. (Aka Coach Em's brother, the one who stayed and served dutifully in the Lorent Pack instead of going "at large". Also the father of Cynthia, Bell's ex-girlfriend who talked like Bubbles.)

Night Leaf's Morning Light Beta Gerald Langston. (Not that he was officially the secretary, but his screen was the one projected during the meeting, and he's always the one taking notes for Dad, so I guess that's the closest Dad was going to get for a "Secretary to the Alpha." Aka president of my fanclub.)

THE LEGAL COUNSELS

Lorent Legal Counsel: Gamma Michaels. (I didn't catch his given name. Most Gammas were born to fight, but the Lorent Gammas were the kind who subscribed to the old adage, "The pen is mightier than the sword." And when they say "pen", they mean "lawsuit". Hahahaha.)

Night Leaf's Young Morning Light Beta Harvey. (Not that he had graduated from law school, he's still in his senior year of Highschool, but he's my beta that didn't leave lose ends hanging, and could come up with "airtight contracts" in consultation with Ki and his Dad and the legal team in Morning Light. Anyway, I think Harvey would make a good lawyer. He had potential.)

THE ADVISORS

Lorent Advisor to the Alpha: Lady Amber. She came with Roy, who looked disappointed that Dad and Beta Lucas weren't at the meeting. I'm not sure what advisors are supposed to be doing at this meeting. Maybe they were supposed to lend us wisdom and guide us or something.

Night Leaf's Guest Tutor to the Alpha Princess and Special Team Delta, (but really Harem Member #9,) Sir Wolfgang, the Fire Pillar of the Snow Moon Kingdom. (Aka Hotstuff.)

I thought this was the perfect match up for Wolfgang since he liked advising so much.

THE SEAT WARMERS

Lorent acting beta but actually Young Gamma, whose main job at this meeting was showing up as a placeholder, I mean, representative for his Young Alpha JL3, because Bell had not responded to any of the meeting invites sent to him, until 5 minutes before the meeting started.

The response was, "9.30."

The meeting was supposed to start at 8pm.

But the thought that Bell was coming gave me strength. One and a half hours. I could last till then to see him.

{Mate! ~❤️}

The Lorents were also heartened to hear that their Young Alpha was coming after all.

And since Wolfgang had made us link up for the meeting, I heard him noting to the others that this was only expected since I was here.

{This is the extent Scary Luna would bend only for his princess.} Fluffy had added.

After a moment's pause, Wolfgang responded, {I had meant that it would have reflected badly on them, for their Young Alpha not to show since our Alpha Princess is in attendance.}

Because such things like face value would be of considerable import to someone of noble repute like Sir Wolfgang the Fire Pillar.

{But I see your point, Fluffy.} Wolfgang rubbed his chin, I hadn't noticed till now the pale gold stubble that had snuck out during the course of the day.

I guess it made sense, since Wolfgang was blond, that his stubble would be just as blond as the hair on his head, but it still got a doubletake from me because Dad's and Beta Lucas' stubble were always dark, like a prickly shadow. (Well excuse me if those were the only two stubble I was aquainted with!). Oh wait, Bell had stubble too... But Bell was dark haired like Dad and Beta Lucas so his stubble was "normal".

Wolfgang noticed me staring and put down his hand. I quickly looked away... At the exact moment he did too, and then we both pretended nothing happened.

If anyone noticed, they didn't comment on it.

{I see.} Beta Gerald said thoughtfully, {Even before the meeting has begun, there are already several points of consideration and the discussion has already begun.}

I felt quite sure Beta Gerald was overthinking this. Basically, I think the Lorents were a bad influence on us. They were making everything complicated.

Anyway, in the seat warmer position, we had Y. Gamma Dominic Michaels for the Lorent team, Aka Dom, Bell's talkative nice-guy friend, who was passionate about coffee blends and beautiful she-wolves.

Night Leaf's Special Team Delta and official scribe, our very own Colored Mountain Prince Fluffy. There was no actual real reason for the match up... except maybe that Fluffy was the kind of beautiful wolf Dom would probably have been passionate about... if he was she wolf. Hahahaha.

The first part of the meeting was "Campaign Objectives and Scope", which I think was supposed to be a discussion to define the existence of this meeting, but snce we were already at the meeting, it turned out to be more like the Lorents justifying the need for a media campaign to be launched against the single "scandalous" photo (which was reprinted countless times across various news sites BUT was essentially still the same photo.)

Based on this discussion, I had come up with a few good campagin names.

1. Making a mountain out of a molehill, because they were seriously blowing everything out of proportion here.

2. Bell's butt-wiping campaign, because that was what Alpha James had called it, and I still thought it was funny to need an entire PR team to wipe your butt. That's a lorent prince for you.

3. Mountain of BS, which was a combination of 1 and 2, and pretty much what went down at the meetng.

The Lorents going to hold press conference to address the gossip. Particularly the one where Bell had spiked my drink because I was a minor and they worried about how this would reflect on his image.

They also not happy that Night Leaf was not pressing charges on the club or publishing the investigation report because it made it look like we were covering up and for Bell. The whole world was going to think that the Glorious Lorent had coerced its babarian neighboring pack to cover up for their Young Alpha's sin, and we mustn't have that! Far be it for anyone to even think the Glorious Lorent Pack would swoop so low! No, all Lorent affairs must be seen as noble and dealings fair and above board.

I had to admire Beta Gerald's great patience. He very politely but firmly informed our Lorent guests that there was no reasonable grounds to sue anyone, or reveal private information gathered from our investigations, and that Alpha King would wish for this matter to be simply laid to rest.

To which the Lorents, (even Delta O because no matter how he had aclimatized to us barbarians, was still a true Lorent), agreed COMPLETELY, and promised to simly lay the matter to rest by raising this campaign to clear their Young Alpha's name and protect the reputation and virtue of the Alpha Princess.

Last I checked in Lycan Legends, wasn't the reputation and virture of a lady protected by dueling or something? Since when did it require a PR team? Only in the world of the Glorious Lorents...

But what would they tell the press? I was just really weak at drinking? For some reason, that felt worse.

Luckily Beta Gerald put a stop to that too. For security reasons, Alpha Kingsley did not want to publicize what made me pass out.

"Maybe we can say it was an allergic reaction?" Dom suggested. But that sounded worse.

I think I fell asleep at the point where they were debating on whether alcohol in an alcoholic beverage was considered a spiked drink... and I never got to see Mate that meeting. T.T

But I did provide inspiration for the PR campaign because the next day, the official story rolled out that the Alpha Princess had simply passed out from exhaustion due to the increased intensity of her training and increase in duties. They even managed to slip in the names of my three extremely peerless teachers - Lady Amber Lorent, Alpha King Gunter Donovan, and Sir Wolfgang the Fire Pillar. They were in the belief that no one would dare to stain my name with these three names tagged on.

Also, Gamma Micheals is sending lawyer letters like war pamphlets - it was going to fall like rain on every news outlet, establishment, and party host (even Henry was not spared.) Basically, anyone and any registered entity that touched the issue was going to be hearing from him.

{That one...} Wolfgang observed, {spreads like a Tyger's curse.}

Hahahaha. Oh, wait. He was making a serious comment.

Anyway, that was all I managed to gather to conclude the meeting. Of all the minutes taken that night, I think mine had to be the shortest - but at least it was in English.