MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Sixty Two — What Aldric Said
The acceleration changed everything.
Not slowly.
Not gradually.
Overnight.
By the next morning seventeen wolves from neighboring territories had arrived in Ironveil asking to observe the transition council in session.
Not to challenge it.
To learn from it.
Mara stood at the gate and looked at them.
At seventeen different faces from seventeen different territories.
At the specific expression she kept seeing.
Recognition.
Always recognition.
She was starting to understand that recognition was not just about the second phase.
It was about something older than that.
The specific feeling of seeing something done the way it should have always been done and understanding in your bones that it was right.
"Come in," she sa
