Bramwell's POV
The first month after Verath was the busiest of my life.
The territorial council's inaugural meeting was scheduled for six weeks out. In the meantime: the exile abolition implementation required coordinated communication with six territory governance structures, each of which had its own administrative process and its own pace of acceptance. The oversight body's membership needed to be finalized, which required a nomination process that Lenora was coordinating across the confluence network with the same systematic attention she brought to medicine.
Cassian sent the eastern corridor agreement — signed, sealed, with the audit provisions intact and a personal note that said simply: I am attempting to be a different kind of Alpha. It turns out to be more difficult than I expe
