Bramwell's POV
The territorial council's founding document needed ratification from the capital.
This was the part I had known was coming and had been managing around the edges of for six weeks. Verath's administrative council — the capital city's governing body, which theoretically oversaw inter-territory disputes but in practice had not exercised meaningful authority over pack politics in thirty years — had the power to formally recognize a new territorial governance structure.
Or to deny it.
Tola had been our eyes in the capital. Her message, arriving on the same day as Kellan's second day of testimony, was the second thing I read that week and felt in my chest rather than my head:
The administrative council has been approached by a third party regarding the proposed territorial re
