They went to the first territory in June.
The Ashwood Pack, led by an Alpha named Voren who had been in the category of watching what happened with the others before committing. Voren had the careful quality of a cautious man, not hostile, not resistant in the active sense, but skeptical in the deep way of someone who had organized his understanding of the world around structures that the frameworks were asking him to examine.
The visit was three days.
Elowen conducted the first full day's conversation alongside Alaric, the two of them presenting the documented outcomes from the territories that had adopted the frameworks, the clinical data from Dalla's records, the case studies from the bond welfare office. She presented it the way she presented everything, with the precision of someon
