Bramwell's POV
We built it at the bridge.
Not literally — no structure yet, just the idea of one. But we gathered people at the low-arched bridge where Lenora had been remade, where the river moved between territories, where neither pack law nor the unclaimed territories had primacy.
Yeva brought the confluence elders. Daren brought the three council members whose integrity the inquiry had confirmed. Petra Vane and her daughter. Harlan. Cassian, who received the summons with what I imagined was genuine surprise and appeared the following morning with his lute conspicuously absent.
Mira came with Rowan, because Lenora had said: the people most affected by the old system should be present when the new one is discussed.
I had no prepared remarks. The absence of prepared remarks was delib
