"It's up," Soren says.He says it at seven twelve in the morning, standing in the kitchen doorway with his phone, and his voice is the voice of someone who has been watching a screen for the last twenty minutes waiting for a timestamp.I am at the table. Bastien is across from me. The coffee between us is the second pot of the morning because neither of us slept past five.I pick up my own phone.The Pack Observer, front section, published at seven ten.The headline reads: A Volana Wolf, A Tribunal, and the Law That Changed: Lena Crest Speaks First.I read it.Sera Finn wrote it the way she said she would. Not sympathetic. Real. The contract is in there, described accurately, neither vilified nor excused. The rejection is in there, described as a mistake made by a man who was afraid and who has spent six weeks proving the opposite of that fear through action. The staircase. The lobby chair. The pregnancy test.The scan image is in there, reproduced with permission, my daughter's face
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