Spring settled into the territory properly by the fifth month.Not the tentative version from April. The real thing. Warm enough to work in the grounds without a coat. The trees fully green now and the light coming through them differently, softer, and the east building sitting in it looking less like something new and more like something that had always been there.Rhen's team started on the keeper hall foundation in the second week of May.It was not fast work. The original stones needed to be assessed individually before anything was built on them. Some were sound. Some needed replacing. The process was careful and slow and I checked on it every few days and watched it taking shape in the way of things built to last rather than to impress.The territory grew around it.That was the only way I could describe what was happening. The territory was the same size it had always been. Same borders. Same land. But the quality of it was different. Fuller. More alive in the bond sense. Like
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