REMI'S POV
The naming ceremony was on a Saturday at the end of April.
Three weeks after Isolde's arrival. The three-bloodline acknowledgment that completed the formal record begun by the charter ratification — the moment when the pack, and the alliance, and the authority received the name in the formal context that made it permanent.
Eleanor had told me, in December, that the naming ceremony for a child of two original bloodlines was one of the older rituals — older than the charter, older than the territorial agreements, dating to the period when the bloodline acknowledgments were the only formal record that existed. It involved the three lineages present: Wolfe, Moonhaven, Ashford. It involved the reading of the name into the bloodline record. It involved the Alpha's formal acknowledg
