Three weeks after the election, Seraphine requested a meeting.
Not through the formal channels that would have been appropriate for institutional communication between the Alpha's office and Moonhaven Infirmary. Through Dalla, with a handwritten note that said only: If she is willing to meet, I would like to speak with her again. Not about the reforms. About something else.
Elowen read the note twice and said yes.
They met in the same small room at the back of Moonhaven. Plain chairs, low table, amber jars. No windows. Elowen arrived first and sat without positioning herself strategically toward the door or toward the room's center. She simply sat. Lyra was quiet inside her, attentive in the way of an animal that has already processed its feelings about a particular encounter and is now
