Lenora's POV The seventh year produced the following things: Kellan opened the eastern refuge in the spring. I went to the opening. Bramwell went to the opening. Harlan went to the opening. Senna went to the opening and stood in the new building with the expression of someone seeing a shape she'd had a hand in making. The oversight body's case review panel, doubled in capacity with the capital liaison's operational support, processed one hundred and three reinstatements between spring and autumn. Mara's testimony at the capital tribunal closed the successor network's investigation. The two capital council members resigned. Toren, the investigative lead, published the full findings — a document that Vane Sorel told me was the most complete account of the network's operations she had eve

