* Regina *I did not intend to allow celebration. There was too much unfinished work to be done. Too many eyes now turned toward us. Provisional recognition was not safe, it was a blade balanced on a single breath. One misstep, one weakness exposed, and the crown would not hesitate to erase us. I knew that. I carried it in every muscle still aching from training, in every quiet calculation running beneath my thoughts.And yet... that was the lie I told myself as the night deepened and the pack refused to disperse.Fires bloomed without orders, small at first, then spreading like a constellation fallen to earth. Someone brought out old drums, their skins cracked and patched, beaten thin by years of hunger and flight. The rhythm was uneven, cautious, until it wasn't. Meat was shared, not ripped apart in frantic need, but passed from hand to hand, torn carefully, offered with nods instead of snarls. Laughter came hesitantly, like a limb testing if it was still attached, then stronger, fu
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