The session ended the way every session ends when one bastard walks away with the whole fucking pie and forty-seven other men are busy acting like they still have dicks and didn't just get bent over.
Handshakes that were pure bullshit. Nods that meant 'I hope you choke.' Alphas that were mindlinking their Betas the only real post-game plan: we just got played like whores and now we're going to throw darts and shit-talk Shadowfell for the next solid hour.
The rookie Beta dipped out of the chamber before Nicholas pulled his token, which meant he had received a mindlink. Damon watched him move and was already mindlinking Guinevere's security.
At that moment, Nicholas pulled the Shadowfell token from the map and the territory dimmed. Then the matebond went dead.
The sensation was so sudden and so total that his hand froze around the token mid-lift.
