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Crossing Home

Author: Nicolet Hale
last update publish date: 2026-05-11 00:38:07

Nana slept for the first hour.

Not the heavy medication sleep I suspected she was used to. Something lighter. The particular rest of a body that has been holding itself tightly for a very long time and has been given permission to release slightly.

She was in the back seat between Adaeze and Kade. Kade had given her the window seat without being asked and had shifted himself to the middle which for Kade, who was not a small man, was a genuine sacrifice.

I watched her in the mirror sometimes.

He
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  • THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA   The Seven Days

    Monday Adaeze pushed Nana harder than the previous sessions.Not unkindly. Just with the particular efficiency of someone who understood that seven days was not much time and that kindness without urgency was not actually kind.By the end of Monday Nana was holding the shielding for four minutes clean.By Wednesday it was eight.By Friday it was fifteen and Adaeze sat back and said that was enough to manage a council chamber with preparation and Nana said she was not stopping at fifteen and Adaeze looked at her and did not argue.Charlotte trained alongside her every morning.Not the same techniques. Her own work. The secondary sensitivity exercises Adaeze had developed specifically for her. But the proximity helped both of them. Charlotte's frequency acting as the anchor Adaeze had described. Nana's sensitivity orienting toward it naturally and settling faster when Charlotte was in the room.They ate every meal together.By Thursday they had stopped being careful with each other the

  • THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA   What Kweku Says

    The summons arrived Friday morning.Official council paper. Heavy seal. The kind of document that had weight in the physical sense as well as the procedural one. Dane brought it to the kitchen where I was eating breakfast with Nana and Charlotte and set it on the table without comment.I read it while I finished my tea.A formal council session had been called. Seven days from now. The matter of Article Nineteen invocation in the western territory. The matter of Alpha Jude Mensah's formal objection. The matter of thirty years of documented suppression in the western pack's internal records.All of it going before the full council.Mensah had moved in less than twenty four hours.I had expected fast. This was faster than fast.Nana was watching my face from across the table."It is the council," I said. "A formal session. About what happened yesterday.""About me," she said."About the Article Nineteen invocation," I said. "About Mensah's objection to it. About the full history." I pau

  • THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA   Crossing Home

    Nana slept for the first hour.Not the heavy medication sleep I suspected she was used to. Something lighter. The particular rest of a body that has been holding itself tightly for a very long time and has been given permission to release slightly.She was in the back seat between Adaeze and Kade. Kade had given her the window seat without being asked and had shifted himself to the middle which for Kade, who was not a small man, was a genuine sacrifice.I watched her in the mirror sometimes.Her face in sleep was younger than twenty one. The particular softness of a person whose guard had come down for the first time in a long while.Adaeze had her eyes closed too. Not sleeping. Working through something internally the way she did sometimes.Kade was looking out his window with that slightly unfocused quality that meant the tracking sensitivity was running.I turned back to the road.Dane drove. His hand came across to mine on the seat between us. I held on."He will move fast," Dane

  • THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA   When Mensah Finds Out

    We had forty minutes.Adaeze worked fast. Not rushing. Fast in the way of someone who understood exactly how much time they had and used every second of it properly. She gave Nana the first shielding technique. The breathing. The foundation. The one thing that could begin to give direction to something that had been running without it for two years.Nana learned it in twenty minutes.Not cleanly. Not held for long. But the click happened. That moment of engagement I recognised from my own first session and from watching Efua and from watching Charlotte. The moment when the technique stopped being an instruction and started being a sensation.When it happened Nana went very still.Then she breathed out slowly."The noise," she said."Yes," Adaeze said."It is quieter," she said."Yes," Adaeze said. "That is what the shielding does."Nana looked at her hands. "Two years," she said quietly. "Two years of that noise and it takes twenty minutes.""It takes the right twenty minutes," Adaeze

  • THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA   Thursday

    We left before six.Dark still. The territory quiet around us. Kade loaded the car while Adaeze went through her kit one more time. My grandmother's book. The charter document. The twelve pages I had prepared. Everything Abena had sent through the secure channel.Charlotte was at the door when we came out.She had not been asked to be there. She was just there. Standing in the cold in her coat with her hands in her pockets and when I came through the door she looked at me with those eyes that missed very little."Bring her back," she said."That is the plan," I said.She nodded.Efua appeared behind her.She said nothing. Just looked at me. Then at Dane. Then back at me."The east building will be ready," she said. "When you get back. I will make sure of it.""Thank you," I said.We got in the car.Sola was at the gate.She handed a bag through the window to Dane without a word. Food for the drive. Hot drinks in sealed containers. The particular efficiency of a woman who understood th

  • THE ALPHA'S CURVY LUNA    The Four Days

    Monday.I told the pack at breakfast.Not everything. The shape of it. That we were going to the western territory Thursday. That there was a young woman there who needed what the east building existed to provide. That we would be back by the weekend.Kade said nothing during the telling which meant he had already known something was coming through the tracking sensitivity and had been waiting for confirmation.Sola said she would have the packhouse ready for our return.Charlotte looked at me across the table and said quietly, "Is she alright.""Not yet," I said. "She will be."Charlotte nodded and went back to her breakfast and did not ask anything else and I noted again that she was considerably more than seventeen in certain ways that mattered.Efua heard about it after morning training.She sat in the main room of the east building with her hands in her lap and her face doing that uncontrolled thing."Two years," she said."Yes," I said."I was eight months," she said. "Eight mon

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