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Julian found her in the east garden.Lena was on the stone bench — Claire's bench, the one facing the tree line — with her coat pulled around her and her eyes on the winter-bare trees. She heard him coming and didn't turn, which meant she had known who it was from the footstep, which meant she had been paying attention in the weeks since she arrived and had catalogued Julian the way she catalogued everything: quietly and completely.He sat on the other end of the bench.They were quiet for a moment. He had the quality he had when something mattered — the specific stillness, the unhurried attention of a man who had learned that the things worth knowing usually came out on their own if you gave them enough room."She told you," Lena said."Yes," he said."And you're here to—""To talk," he said. "Not to persuade. Not to thank you in advance for a decision you haven't made yet." He looked at the trees. "Claire said you had questions."Lena looked at her hands. "One question," she said. "
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Stern talked for four hours.Not willingly at first — with the careful initial resistance of a man who had been managing information for three decades and had strong feelings about what got released in which order. But the documents were already in Council hands, Adler had arrived by noon and had the specific quality she always had when something important was in front of her — the quality of a woman who would sit in this room for as long as it took and had nothing more pressing — and gradually the resistance ran out the way water ran out of things that had been holding it too long.What he told them was mostly what the documents had shown, but the gaps were filled. The family's method. The thirty-year Council placement. The network of informants across the region that had been built not as a conspiracy against the packs but, as Stern framed it and as Claire was not yet sure was a lie, as a containment system against Mara's return."You were managing her," Julian said."Trying to," St
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