She brought it to the Council in June.Not as an emergency—as a preparation proposal. The distinction mattered and she was deliberate about it: this was not an alarm, this was prudence. She had seen what happened when packs treated distant threats as immediate ones and what happened when they dismissed distant threats as irrelevant. She was aiming for the specific middle path.Thorne presented the intelligence. She spoke to the response."We don't know the Federation's intentions," she said. "We know they're watching us and we know their philosophy is fundamentally incompatible with ours. We don't know what they intend to do about the incompatibility." She held the room. "What I'm proposing is not preparation for war. It's preparation for uncertainty. The difference matters."The room's response organized itself into the familiar poles. Several Alphas—the same ones who had been skeptical about the Purist threat until it was directly on their doorstep—saw no reason to
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