Damien called the assembly on Thursday morning.
Selene did not know it was coming. She had told Rhys on Wednesday evening to tell Damien that patience was a strategy and she had meant it and she had gone to bed believing he had received the message and filed it in the same practical place he filed most things she wrote to him.
She had not accounted for the specific quality of Damien Cole's patience, which was not the patience of a man who did nothing but the patience of a man who waited until the moment was exactly right and then moved with complete efficiency.
She found out about the assembly the way she found out about most things in Ironmoon, through the texture of the morning before anyone told her directly. The pack house had a different quality at breakfast, more directed, the kin
