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~Selene's POV~The office's first official case arrives within a month of the formal ceremony, not stemming from Isolde's continuing pattern at all but something entirely separate, a pack situated in the western territories reporting a suspected financial manipulation scheme that bears none of the specific hallmarks of the original protocol but nonetheless requires exactly the kind of careful, methodical documentation the new office was specifically built to provide from the very beginning."This is genuinely outside our original scope," Bria says, laying the initial complaint carefully across the small office space they have set up together in a designated wing of Pack Hall, formal now with its own dedicated budget and its own trained staff, though still admittedly modest by any reasonable comparison to the larger governance structures surrounding it. "It's not a leadership consolidation pattern at all. It's straightforward embezzlement, dressed up cleverly in enough complexity that

~Selene's POV~Miriam calls on a Sunday evening with news that arrives carefully, the specific measured pacing of someone who has clearly rehearsed how to deliver something genuinely significant without letting the full weight of it land too suddenly on the person receiving it."I've met someone," she says, once the twins' enthusiastic updates about the week's events have finally finished and the call has settled into something considerably quieter and more deliberate. "I wanted you to hear it directly from me, not secondhand through anyone else who might tell you before I had the chance."Selene sits with this for a moment, genuine surprise moving through her chest before anything else registers fully. "Tell me all about him, please.""His name is Edmund. He sits on the Cultural Council with me, has for considerably longer than I've actually been there myself. Widowed now, several years back. We started having coffee together after our sessions, purely practical at first, simply comp

~Selene's POV~The office marks its first full year with a quiet review session rather than any formal ceremony, Vera's own suggestion, made plainly during a chamber session in early spring, that the anniversary would genuinely mean more measured carefully against actual outcomes than celebrated loudly with empty speeches nobody would remember by autumn."Twelve packs now formally protected, by our current count," Bria reports, presenting the full year's summary at the small table they have claimed permanently as the office's own working space. "Two separate cases handled entirely through remote consultation, no travel required at all for either one. One case, the western embezzlement matter specifically, that expanded our core methodology into territory we hadn't originally anticipated needing to cover.""And the review point itself," Vera adds, present for the anniversary assessment at Selene's own personal invitation. "The one you insisted on building in from the very start, rather

~Selene's POV~Kael's letter arrives in late autumn, formal in its opening but carrying, beneath the customary courtesies, something Selene recognizes immediately as significant, a request to speak with her privately before he next visits for the archive correspondence, rather than simply folding the conversation into the usual scheduled session.He arrives the following week, and she meets him in the study rather than the archive room itself, sensing correctly from the tone of his letter that whatever he intends to say belongs to a different register entirely than the careful scholarly exchanges they have carefully maintained together for years now."I've been offered a permanent position," he says, once the initial formalities have properly settled between them. "At the northern conclave itself, overseeing the entire Silverborn archive network rather than simply managing the correspondence thread with Cresthaven specifically. It would mean relocating fully to the north, and it would

~Selene's POV~Miriam and Edmund's wedding falls on a Saturday in late April, the elder circle chosen deliberately rather than any formal chapel, a small quiet ceremony that Miriam has designed herself with the specific precision of a woman who spent decades planning things carefully for other people and has finally, fully earned the right to plan something entirely, completely for herself alone."You could have this at the manor, you know," Selene had offered, weeks earlier, sitting together over tea while the invitations were still being drafted, and Miriam had shaken her head firmly with the particular certainty that has characterized nearly every decision she has made since first accepting the Council seat."I want it somewhere that genuinely belongs to all of us equally, not somewhere that belongs specifically to you and Caden alone. The elder circle is neutral ground, truly, and it's the exact place where I first understood what Wren actually was, and where I've watched, over th