Amara begins her international law studies three months after returning from Geneva, choosing a university close enough to home that she can still attend Second Ledger's regular strategy sessions during holidays.
"I want to stay connected to the actual work," she explains to Sevric and Aisha during move-in weekend, boxes still scattered across her small dormitory room. "Not just study theory disconnected from everything our family's actually built."
"You'll have plenty of theory regardless," Aisha reminds her gently, helping arrange bookshelves. "But I understand wanting that connection. It's exactly how I felt during my own graduate studies."
Talia, considerably stronger now thanks to her continued successful treatment, insists on making the drive personally despite Sevric's initial co
