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Chapter Thirty-Five — What We Put in the Book
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After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins Chapter Forty — The Second Name
Mara put the consent sheet in my hand at the porch rail while Ames was still tying the first nomination in.One line at the top, in a hand that was not mine.Candidate consent — Damien Kane.Under it, two ruled boxes the size of a thumbprint. ACCEPT. DECLINE."Whenever you're ready, Kane," she said.I did not sign it.Sign the first box on that porch at noon, in front of the wolves already on the steps, and I would be telling this Pack what I wanted before it had said a word.Sign the second and I would be taking back the question I had put to them. My petition asked this Pack to choose again. A man who asks for a judgment and then walks out from under it has answered it himself.Either box, signed in that minute, was one more Kane deciding for four hundred people.So I put the sheet inside my coat and went to find work.Cole came round the house with the day book under his arm and found me at the bottom of the steps with nothing in my hands."Noon delivery's been sitting in the yard
After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins Chapter Thirty-Nine — The Line She Left Blank
The notice came up to Mara's kitchen at ten past seven on stiff paper, to be signed before it went on the board.I read it standing, with my coat still on.Notice to the Blood Moon Pack. The date. Two lines about Damien Kane's petition. Then a field with a rule under it.Mate / Luna of the Blood Moon Pack . . . . . . . . Aria VanceIn a good hand. Somebody had put a loop on the V.I set it down beside a cup of tea I had poured at four and not touched, and laid my palm flat on it."Who put my name in an office I did not ask for?"The runner was seventeen and had carried it up the hill in the dark. "It's the form. There's a standing form for a change of Alpha, and that line's in it, and I copied it off the last one. I did ask. I was told to fill it as it stood.""Told by who?""Nobody in particular." He was wretched about it. "Everybody. It's the form."That's worse than a plot, Nyx said. A plot has a man in it you can put your hand on.Theo relieved the far gate at two and signed for t
After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins Chapter Thirty-Eight — The Scales Stayed Downstairs
I took a clean sheet off the top of Ames's pile, laid it over the handling column, and set the quarter-ounce weight on the corner to hold it flat."Enter the name in full," I said. "Then cover it."Ames's pencil stopped. "Cover it.""It goes into the record. It doesn't get to walk around the room." White paper over four inches of ink, and the ink still under it. "Three years ago this Council kept a book with my name in it and a line saying there was no living subject, and everybody believed the handwriting. A name is a door you go through. It isn't what's on the other side of it."Mara had not taken her hand off the page. "You think he is owed that much.""I think if we start at Sedge, everything we turn over tonight is a thing Sedge did, and we stop the minute it fits."I want him, Nyx said. She had been low in me since the beam settled. More than you do.I know. Hands flat."Four columns, Ames. Rule them wide."He turned the sheet long-ways."One. What the book says. Two. What had t
After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins Chapter Thirty-Seven — The Weight in the Book
"Nobody writes that word yet."Ames's pencil stopped an inch above the page.Mara had the word in her mouth already. She is eighty-one and does not waste breath, and she let it go unspent."A thing is missing after a room has been searched," I said. "This room has been looked into. Those are not the same word, and in February the difference will matter more than anything either of us feels tonight.""Then we search it," Mara said."All of it. You and I, hands only. Ames stays on the threshold and writes what we searched, what we did not, and why not."Six presses, floor to ceiling, four shelves in each. We took them down a shelf at a time, and I called every item out loud as it came off and again as it went on, and Ames matched each against its position number in the old inventory before it went back.I measured the outside depth of every press with a folding rule, then the inside. Two came up short, and both times it was the thickness of the boards, and both times I checked anyway.T
After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins Chapter Thirty-Six — Forty Feet
"Then nobody touches it," I said.Mara had her hand on the latch of the records room door. She took it off."Not you, not me, not the two Deltas standing over it. Who looked at it last, and when?""I did. Ten past four, sunset, with my own lamp. My mark is in the post book at the stair-head.""Then the post book comes off that stair-head tonight, and nobody writes another line in it."She took me out.The archive corridor runs forty feet from the head of the stair to the inner door. Two lamps, both at the stair end, so the last dozen feet lie in the dark. Boards that talk, and a press of old maps along one wall.The seal is not wax. It is a strip of linen tape across the join, carried round the jamb and pinched at either end into lead on a wire.Somebody had cut that tape along the join with something thin and laid it back down. The lead was squeezed shut again by a hand that knew the tool. Mara's initials were still on it in ink, in two halves now, and the halves sat a hair out of tr
After the Alpha Rejected Me, I Came Back with His Twins Chapter Thirty-Five — What We Put in the Book
He stopped with his back to me in a clearing with four hundred wolves in it, and he did not turn around, and I understood that he had decided not to make me look at his face while I said it.Three years ago he did not wait for me to speak. Tonight he was going to walk away without waiting again."Turn round," I said. "You don't get to be spared this."He turned round."I have not forgiven you."It went across four hundred wolves and came back off the trees."I want that said here, with Elder Mara writing, because you have just given this Pack a very good speech and there is a version of tonight where everybody goes home feeling moved. I am not having it." My voice held. "You told the truth. That is the least a person can do, and you took three years to do it.""Yes," Damien said."And I don't know if I ever will. I want that in the book too. Not not yet. Not in time. I don't know, and I am not going to promise a man a thing I might not have.""No.""Then here is what I do have."I wen
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