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She didn't raise her voice once during the entire confrontation, and somehow that made the victory feel even more devastating to watch.I heard about it secondhand, the way I learned most significant things in this packhouse lately, though this time the news arrived considerably faster than usual, carried through the corridors by servants who'd clearly never witnessed anything quite like what had apparently unfolded in the council chamber that morning.Serena had moved to have Ryan reassigned. I learned the details from Olivia, who'd gotten them from a steward who'd been present for the entire exchange, watching it unfold with the kind of wide-eyed fascination usually reserved for genuine spectacle."She tried framing it as routine restructuring." Olivia recounted it breathlessly, having clearly rushed straight to find me the moment she'd heard. "Something about reassigning Ryan to border patrols permanently, away from the main packhouse, citing his frequent unexplained absences as ev

She waited until I was alone to make her position absolutely clear, the way clever predators always wait until the herd has moved on before going for the throat.Three days after the council vote, I'd let myself relax enough to take a longer walk through the packhouse's interior corridors, the familiar route I used to take every morning before everything fell apart, back when these halls had felt like home rather than territory I navigated carefully to avoid ambush. Grace's scent-masking blend had held steady through another brutal morning, the twins were growing whether the world chose to acknowledge them or not, and the small, fragile victory of the vote had settled into something I was learning to hold carefully rather than tightly.I rounded the corner near the old solar and found Serena standing exactly in the middle of the corridor, like she'd been waiting there specifically, which I understood immediately she had been."Clara." Her voice was warm, almost friendly, the performan