The Elder Council's formal inquiry into Norrskov pack operations ran for three weeks.
Mira knew this because Thessaly, who had submitted her thirty years of documented Voidblood case records as primary evidence, received regular updates from the Council recorder and shared them with the war room. The inquiry was thorough in the specific way of something that had been delayed for thirty years and was now making up for it — every Norrskov safety transfer cross-referenced against Council records, every wolf who had been taken documented by name, every pack alpha who had facilitated access to Valdris's network identified and notified of their status in the inquiry.
There were eleven packs implicated. Ashveil was one of them.
Ryden appeared before the Council on day thirty-four of the inquir
