LYSSARA
“I want to ask you something else, Thalric said.
“Ask.”
“The founding compact's consort designation is permanent and irrevocable, and I hold it, and you named it in the open air of Ashfen's courtyard in front of the wolf world's oldest institution, and it is ours, and it is not going anywhere. The moon ceremony is different. The moon ceremony is not required by the compact and has not been performed, and is yours to choose or not choose, and I am not asking you to choose it because the compact requires it or because sovereignty requires it or because the founding era's architecture anticipates it.”
He paused and added. “I am asking you to choose it because I want you to, and because asking you to is the most specific thing I know how to do with what I feel, and because you said
