The first official appointment Alpha Caius Voss cancelled was the strategic morning briefing with the territorial survey team.
High Council Leader Draven smoothly rescheduled the session without being asked, which meant the high beta had been entirely expecting the cancellation. It also meant Draven was actively tracking internal metrics he hadn't disclosed to his Alpha. Senior Beta Brennan noted the silent shift. He quietly filed it away under a rapidly expanding mental archive of things he was collecting without knowing what to do with yet.
The second meeting Caius cancelled was his private afternoon session with Celeste Harrow.
That one, Draven didn't bother to reschedule. He simply sent the Harrow family liaison a brief, meticulously courteous message regarding revised summit timeli
