{Zero}

Echoing through Alessio's head are self-deprecating insults - telling him he isn't good enough.

Crowned as the Alpha of half of Birchwood Forest, he discerns himself as weak and unfit to rule over those obligated to submit to him due to the vicious words spit at him by his father.

Unintentionally looming over the other wolves like a cloud of ebony, he eclipses over Messiah, Waxing Crescent's Beta, concealing the beams of light he tries to pour into his shadow-filled mind. Every time Messiah reaches out to pull Alessio into his embrace, Alessio pushes him away, afraid of weakness.