Athena nodded as she listened to Rivaxorus talk about how Leo was helping him prepare for his own pack. It reminded her a lot of how she had ended up taking over her father's role. Of course her path had been a very strange and hard one, but she had gotten started by gaining a higher rank like Riv had. He spoke about getting to know wolves in the pack and she laughed lightly at his little mix of words at the end. She had known what he meant, but it was a funny thought anyway. "That's good. I wish I had done more of that when I was an alpha so I'd say you're definitely on the right track."
He asked about her daughters and she smiled. "They're doing well. I don't think the challenge really shook them nearly as badly as I was afraid it would. I think it helped that Leo won and nothing changed for them really..." She frowned a little. If they actually knew their brothers it might have been a different story. As it was they were really only familiar with their uncle so that had been the one that had mattered. But did pups really understand what a challenge was? She wasn't really sure.
