LYSSARA
Mira left before the pack house settled into its evening rhythm. She delivered everything she had come to deliver and then she folded the last Alpha Queen's will with the careful precision of someone who had been keeping it correctly for four generations and was now handing it to the person it had always been intended for and she placed it in my hands and she said: this belongs to you now and I have been waiting a very long time to say that and it feels exactly as it was supposed to feel and I am going to go before I say anything that diminishes it.
Then she left and the healer's quarters were quiet and Zirelle was warm and steady in the healer's arms and the will was in my hands and the founding compact's activation was still in the walls and the declaration's gold was somewhere
