The Fourth Species Council conducted its yearly celebration fifty years after Sera and Lucien's link was forged. Thousands of integrated families, hybrid offspring, cross-species couples, and allies from all supernatural communities attended the event, which had expanded from modest get-togethers to enormous festivals.Aurora now went with her own family. Marcus, the werewolf-witch hybrid she had connected with, was the same Marcus she had faced in her first Silverwood competition.They had two children: little Nora, age seven, who was still figuring out what her unique hybrid nature would become, and Elias, age twelve, who somehow merged vampire, witch, and werewolf talents in previously unheard-of combinations. Elias grumbled, typical of a preteen, "It's crowded.""It's community," Aurora corrected. "All these people exist because your grandparents chose love over war. Remember that."Sera and Lucien were elderly now in supernatural terms—Sera was seventy-four, Lucien over three hun
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