KNOX
Grayson officiated because I chose him and because the alternative was Elder Petra, who was the most senior council member still present and technically the traditional choice, but who had spent forty-eight hours under pack arrest and was, I felt, unlikely to bring the appropriate energy.
Grayson took this responsibility with the gravity it deserved, which is to say he spent two days preparing notes and a further day arguing with Riley about whether he could include a joke and she said no and he didn't include the joke but you could tell it cost him something.
The ceremony was pack-only. Small. The inner circle — the wolves who'd been with us in Nevada, a handful of core pack members who'd made the trip, no elders from the old council. No ceremony hall. We used the property outside
