Three months after the birth, the ability returned to full reach.
Lillian confirmed it on a Wednesday. Wren confirmed it the same afternoon, sitting in the east wing garden with the founding charter open on her knee and the particular expression of someone whose prediction has arrived exactly on schedule. I confirmed it myself on a Tuesday morning while making coffee in the packhouse kitchen, when the full pack bond network of Ironpeak arrived in my awareness all at once, every wolf, every connection, every thread of loyalty and love and shared history simultaneously present, and I nearly dropped the mug.
Delia, from across the kitchen, looked at me with the calm expression of a woman who had watched a great many significant things happen in this packhouse and had long since stopped trea
