Semua Bab The Luna With Ruin: Bab 171 - Bab 176

The full Greywood ruling came through the council registry on a Saturday morning and it was longer than the preliminary findings and more definitive in its language, which was what three months of formal inquiry produced when the evidence was what it was.She read it at the kitchen table while Kira ate breakfast beside her, which was a thing Kira had started doing in the past month, sitting in the high chair Damoew had found somewhere and eating actual food with the focused intensity she brought to everything she decided to engage with. The ruling was forty pages and she read all of it while Kira worked through her bowl and the compound started its Saturday around them.The full ruling found that Ashpen Pack's dissolution had been the result of a coordinated campaign of coercive pressure and property destruction by Greenvale Pack, that the fire had been deliberately set, that the 1963 complaint had been inadequately investigated due to the relative standing of the parties in the counc

The mate bond filing went into the council registry on Tuesday morning, as she'd said, in the format Elara had built from the substance she and Damoew had written at the kitchen table, and it was noted in the alpha administrative communication that went to all six alliance Alphas and to the pack council simultaneously, which was Elara's decision about how to handle the notification and which Jasmina approved without changes because Elara's decisions about communication protocol were almost always right.The pack's response was not a ceremony, which she'd made clear she didn't want, and was not silence, which would have been the wrong kind of not-ceremony. What it was was the specific quality of the compound on a Tuesday when something had happened that people were glad about and were expressing through the ordinary channels, someone stopping her in the main corridor to say something brief, Petra catching her eye across the training ground in the morning and giving her a single nod tha

The gathering happened on a Saturday and it was exactly what Elara had described, which was to say ordinary in scale and not ordinary in what it held.The pack and the alliance warriors and the compound's people filled the main yard the way they'd filled it for the mourning ceremony and the naming ceremony and the celebration after the valley battle and the gathering after Aldric's document and the autumn fire when Kira had made the flame flare three meters in the air, which felt both very recent and very far from where they were standing now.Kira was in the carry wrap against Jasmina's chest, which was where she'd been a year ago when Jasmina had stood in front of the pack after the mourning ceremony with a three-day-old baby who had been named and introduced to the people who would hold her. She was almost too big for the wrap now, the length of her pressing its limits, and this was probably one of the last times she'd use it, which Jasmina had noted that morning and which she was