Leah did not leave Blackridge. Even after her punishment ended, she wasn't immediately restored to her old training-management role. She started again at the bottom of the regular rotation, checking equipment, working with the younger wolves, and taking night watch. During one joint training session, she saw me from a distance and stopped.In the end, she only walked over and said, "I'm sorry."I nodded. I didn't tell her it was okay. Some things were not okay. We never became friends. But we stopped being enemies too. My mother began writing to me once a month.She stopped asking, "When are you coming home?"Instead, she told me when the first snow fell in Silverpine, that my father was doing well, or that Rowan had finally learned to remember the dates of every border meeting without being reminded. After my father formally handed more leadership duties to Rowan, he began taking part in a family-relations counseling program in Silverpine.Rowan came to the North for meetings from tim
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