Rank challenge for @Rochus.
Eros didn't have all the time in the world for challenging authority. There were growing siblings to attend to, friends and family to check in on, hunts to partake in, the duties of his role to complete each day...
Today though, he happened upon a cache at the same time as 'grandpa' Rochus and it felt all too natural for Eros to hold his head high and his tail higher. It was time. Despite what others thought, the young Valle had put in the work, was of age, and had the drive to be a Second of this pack. Following his father's generation's example, he had decided that it was time for his own to start helping to make the bigger choices.
Besides... who else had really had his father's back through all of this? Certainly not Vayko's dad, and even Vasco had become different, almost distant.