Summer arrived properly and with it the correspondence that had become one of the steady rhythms of Elowen's weeks.
Cassia wrote regularly now, practical and detailed and carrying the specific quality of someone who has been in an undocumented situation for a long time and has discovered, with enormous relief, that documentation is being created. Her wolf's partial hibernation had not resolved, the bond-site damage in bereavement cases was different in character from the damage in neglect cases and the treatment approaches were not interchangeable, but Cassia had connected with a healer in her territory who was now corresponding with Dalla about the developing framework.
Elowen wrote back every time.
Not always at length. Sometimes only a paragraph, the healer's update received and the
