Lenora's POV
The three weeks before the capital hearing were the most organized period of my adult life, which I had not expected.
I had always been a person of improvisation — learning to read circumstances, adapting to constraints, finding ways through the gaps in whatever structure surrounded me. Planning at scale was different. Planning at scale required the kind of institutional knowledge I'd been accumulating for months and hadn't fully synthesized until now.
We divided the work.
Bramwell handled the political and legal preparation — the inquiry findings organized for capital presentation, the territorial council's founding document translated into the administrative language the capital body would understand, and the quiet but firm communication to the various territorial Alphas
