Holt had come with four questions, written in the precise hand of a man who considered careful preparation a baseline courtesy.
I worked through his questions first. Then the outer community members'. Then the inner council's. By the end of the session I had a clearer picture of the gap than any individual perspective had provided — the shape of the problem, seen from seven different angles simultaneously.
"The working group's role," I said, at the end, "is not to find a compromise between the inner pack's authority and the outer community's autonomy. The gap isn't a conflict. It's an absence. What we're building is the structure that was never built — the formal mechanism that lets the Luna function act in cross-jurisdictional matters with standing, rather than requiring families to com
