Bramwell's POV
In the fifth year, the territorial council restructured.
Not a crisis — a planned evolution. The founding document had included a five-year review provision that Lenora had insisted on over the objections of several council members who argued that a five-year review introduced instability.
"A five-year review," she had said at the time, "introduces accountability. Structures that can't be reviewed in five years are structures that can't be improved."
The review produced fourteen amendments, three substantial structural changes, and one entirely new body: a standing committee on institutional memory, charged with maintaining the full documented account of the exile era and its aftermath.
The standing committee's charter required that its membership always include at leas
