Chapter 104 The formal agreement happened on Sunday morning. No ceremony. No document signed at a long table with witnesses. Just four men in Kane's practical sitting room with coffee going cold and a territorial map spread across the low table and the particular quality of people who had decided something and were now moving past the decision into its execution. Kane and Matthias. Two northern Alphas Kane had brought in the previous evening, Aldric, who ran the easternmost northern territory with the quiet authority of someone who had inherited a difficult situation and made it functional through sheer competence, and Fenn, younger than the others, sharp-eyed, from a territory that bordered the Council's primary administrative region and had been watching its politics at close range for years. I sat to the side. Not excluded. Just not at the table. This was their agreement to make. I was there because Kane had said *bring the girl* and Matthias had and both of them understood th
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