After explaining to the Pack what she suspected, two other couples came forward, and we started to document the details they provided us with. We informed the Council as soon as we could, after all it might stop these attacks once and for all. With the documentation of four couples, Elders were sent to every Pack to find out if our Pack was the only Pack with this phenomenon, and within a month they returned to the Council with about twenty other reports, from high-ranking Wolves to Omega Lycans. Bane found his Mate when we visited Silver Moon Pack; the plan was to spend two days there until his Lycan told me that he wanted to stay, and when Bane returned home three days later he brought home his Mate. Their bond is as strong as mine is with Lance; the only difference is the way they found out that they are Mates. There is a huge difference in finding your Mate these days; we no longer have to rely on the Days of the Full Moon. Bane and his Lycan had described it as a bond being forged one link at a time; in their case it took three days, while Crimson said it took his bond four days to be forged. With reports of bonds taking up to six days to be forged, the Council decided that it would be wise to wait a week before anyone would dismiss a male or female as their Mate. Future generations will grow up with another way of finding their Mate, but at least it put a stop to forceful markings. The Council also discovered why some bonds take longer to be forged, and it has everything to do with the reluctance of the Human part of a shifter, but in some cases the Animal part of a shifter stays loyal to their Human side. If a male or a female knows that his or her Mate is known to sleep around or if their personality isn't a kind or nice one, it can cause the bond to be forged slowly. I just hope that the Council will protect those that decide to reject their Mate and not allow them to be forcefully marked. I place the journal on my desk; it isn't the first time I have read them, and I doubt it will be the last time. As the future Beta of Crystal Blood Pack, I need to know our Pack's history, but it is also something that has my interest, and I have read every journal we have at least a few times over the years. Crystal Blood Pack was reinstated almost two hundred years ago, and we are the only Pack that has journals from different kinds of shifters. The Council has copies of a few entries, but we never gave them copies of the entire journals, and I doubt we will ever give it to them. My Grandfather was the first Bear shifter this Pack had; his best friend was a Leopard, and their