The coronation falls on the first clear morning of spring, and I wake before dawn the way I used to when Damon's household still ran on my schedule alone, except this time nobody needs me to be awake yet. I lie there a while just breathing, Lucien's arm heavy across my waist, and let myself feel the strange calm of a day I've been building toward without fully realizing it.Wren bursts in an hour later anyway, too excited to let either of us sleep in."It's today," she announces, as if we could have possibly forgotten. "You're actually going to be Wolf King.""Wolf Queen, technically," Griffin corrects from the doorway, already dressed, "though I've told her a dozen times the title doesn't actually change.""It's tradition," my father says, appearing behind him, leaning less on his cane these days than he did months ago. "The North has only ever called its ruler Wolf King, regardless of who sits the throne. Elara can change that herself, once it's hers to change.""I like Wolf King fi
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