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Chapter 101

Ava’s POVThe problem with politics is that bad ideas don't always fly under the banner of bad ideas.They are dressed appropriately.They speak calmly.They employ terms such as stability and tradition and experience.Then six months later, all wonder how things went so wrong.I was now seeing this first-hand.The replacement talks dragged on for almost three weeks after I was nominated.Three long weeks.Three long weeks in which I was constantly telling people that I didn't want to be on Council.Unfortunately, no one appeared very interested in my opinion.The candidate interviews were held.Meetings.Interviews.Political talk, couched in casual terms.It was very tiring.I went because Dario told me that those decisions were important.Quite surprisingly, that was the case.So I attended the meetings and I didn't say much at them.Listened.Observed.Made an extra effort to stay out of it.At first it worked.But one candidate in particular began to grow in popularity.This man'

Chapter 102

Ava’s POVThe first Council session since I became a councillor taught me an important lesson.Politics was even worse than war.In the battle at least you were aware of who was going to harm you.But in the Council chambers it was different.Everyone smiled.Everyone spoke politely.All individuals communicated in a respectful way.But somehow it seemed a lot more dangerous.When I got there on that morning, the room was already full.Council members took a seat around the long round table to read reports and discussion notes.Chamber soft-spoken with conversations.Nothing unusual.Nothing openly hostile.But, I felt it right away.The difference.The hesitation.The awareness.They all knew me, each and every one of them.Not Ava Grey.Not just a Council member.The bonded mate of the Lycan King.The woman who was linked to the network.The woman who, for all intents and purposes, does not exist in half of the old political set-up.I settled down in my place, anyway.There was a li

Chapter 103

Eryn’s POVThere was not much activity in the archive halls.Not unusual.They were always quiet.Knowledge preferred silence.History preferred patience.The long corridors were formed beneath the mountain, each with shelves and stones. The thin beams of sunlight shimmered in the dust which floated in the air.Old books.Old records.Old truths.Some preserved.Some hidden.There were a few almost lost forever.I was alone at one of the central tables, with a stack of official documents neatly laid out before me.The final agreements.The final revisions.The final signatures.A few papers for three hundred years of history.Strange.When the world changed it wasn't very dramatic.The vast majority of the time it was like this.Ink.Paper.Quiet rooms.People making decisions.Life outside of the archives was as usual.Within the walls, a world was dying out.I retrieved the first one.Not so I would need to read it again.Even to this day I find it hard to believe.The Moon Council

Chapter 104

Ava's POVThe archives' halls were silent.They usually were.Despite the mountains being busier than it had been in months, the archives somehow managed to escape the busy mountain.No noise could be heard inside.The laughter.The conversations.The constant changes in Valley Creek.Here was not a bit of it but only sunlight, dust and paper.I was strolling along the shelves slowly.I felt the faintest of buzzes in the network beneath me.Ninety-two threads.Comfortable.Familiar.Life moving forward.Kael was debating with Petra in some way related to her research, somewhere down the mountain.I had the feeling that she was getting irritated.His excitement.Nothing unusual there.I felt like smiling at the thought.After that, I came into the main archive room.Cassian was right where I thought he'd be.Sitting on a long wooden table.Surrounded by documents.Again.A few things remained the same.The sun beamed down on the page spread before him. Piles of reports were neatly sort

Chapter 105

Ava’s POVThe meeting room of the Council was different this time.Not comfortable.Not relaxed.Just different.Gregory had been alive for years and his presence had always influenced all the debates held within these walls. Though he was silent, everybody knew that he was.He was a man that had an impact in every corner.His command was sufficient to fill all the voids.There was no more weight now.There was tension in the room, but it wasn't as strong.Politics always would.However the fear was different.Smaller.Human.I was seated at one of the long side tables, observing as Council members were seated.Papers shuffled.The chamber was quiet, with some voices heard talking softly.The sun poured into the high, windows behind them.I felt a slight buzz in the network under my awareness.Ninety-two threads.Steady.Supportive.Present.Milrac was seated some seats away.Not speaking.Observing.As he used to do at Council meetings.The bond, a calm that flowed through his.Groun

Chapter 106

Ava's POVThe first thing that he found out was that the shelf was empty.I ran into it in passing.I had been using the archive levels for a few months now. Council work got me into the records more than I would have liked, and eventually I lost interest in the seemingly endless rows of shelves.One morning when I was searching for a transport report, I passed by Cassian's usual work area.And stopped.An entire shelf was empty.Not completely empty.Just noticeably thinner.The type of change which people would not recognise.But Cassian wasn't like most people.I wasn't either.I stood there for a while, just looking at it.Then glimpsed his desk.Three boxes of storage were neatly beside it.Organized.Labeled.Ready.The thought came to him slyly.Cassian was leaving.Not today.Maybe not tomorrow.But soon.I didn't expect this to come as a shock to me.Yet somehow it did.As I turned through the pages, the network seemed to glide through me, under my consciousness, before I rea

Chapter 107

Outside the windows of the observatory, light snow fell.Not a storm.Not the winter storms that once covered Valley Creek in ice and silence.Only a few soft flakes falling in the evening darkness.The mountain seemed different these days.Quieter.Not empty.Never empty.Alive.There were ninety-two threads running underneath the network and they were warm. Wolves finished their dinner, returned from their patrols or went to their rooms for the night and familiar emotions brushed softly on my awareness.Home.That word amazed me everytime.I noticed Cassian standing by the windows to the west and he had his hands slightly over his back.One traveling bag was placed next to the door.Ready.That sight caused a tight sensation in my chest.Not grief.Just understanding.He was going to be leaving tomorrow.I couldn't believe the realization, though I had been anticipating it for weeks.Cassian looked over as I walked in.He looked somewhat confused.Not surprised.Recognition."Ava."

Chapter 108

Ava's PovIt was a quiet summer for Valley Creek.But not with stormy weather.Not at high temperatures.Just gradual change.Snow moved farther up the mountains. Lower paths were lined with wildflowers. The breeze rustled through the trees, making the air lighter.This mountain was breathing new life.Less tension.Less waiting.More life.It was just after dawn and I was standing in the courtyard, below, watching the wolves walk through the main road.I felt a gentle feeling of the network, soothingly under my awareness.Ninety-two threads.Familiar.Steady.Home.Near the bottom floor, Tara was attempting to convince Caen of the need for sleep.Caen disagreed.Strongly.Petra was cracking up.Kael was trying to study infant behaviors once more.Nothing unusual there.The idea brought a smile to my face.So I turned my focus to the road.Towards the figure standing next to a saddled horse.Cassian.The sun was shining in the morning, highlighting the stone walls around the main gate

Chapter 109

Ava's PovIt was early fall with peace and quiet.I went outside in the mornings and the air was sharper. Color changes were starting to occur in the forests on the lower slopes of the mountain. The leaves were green, but then there were some gold and red ones that gradually started to spread throughout the valley.Winter was not yet upon them.But it was coming.Valley Creek was different this time.Busy.Not with preparations for war.Not at Emergency meetings.Not with survival.Construction.Growth.Life.I walked through the bottom levels of the archives just after dawn.The area was already packed with people.Shelves were rolled on stone floor. Records came on a regular basis, arriving almost every day in crates. Additions were made to the east wing with new tables being added. Freshly-built supports were hung over with lanterns.There was a low buzz in the network, but it was barely noticeable.Ninety-two threads.Steady.Comfortable.Alive.A bunch of guest scholars walked by

Chapter 110

Ava's PovThe research area appeared to be a mess.An organized disaster.But still a disaster.Papers were spread over nearly all surfaces.Tables.Shelves.Window ledges.Entire stacks were balanced, likely in violation of multiple safety tenets, and at the very least in violation of one law of physics.The mountain was now in full autumn.The windows were slightly open and cold air moved through them. Outside the ways went the golden leaves. The archive was one of the busiest places within Valley Creek.And this room was still the worst.I walked around a column of papers which seemed to be in danger of falling over with one elbow.I didn't make a lot of noise but I think I heard Kael snort when I came in.Which wasn't surprising.He was standing at a table strewn with mathematical proofs, notes, diagrams and corrections to make a second archive of his own.His hair was in a bad condition.A remarkable achievement.Petra was by his side, making some notes on one of the pages. Petra

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