About Ren, four weeks old, in the compound with Ziko narrating the world at her and the ceiling fan finally receiving a satisfactory assessment and Duke's sketchbook filling with the first pages of something new.
About everything that was going to build from here, forward, into a future that the first three Stabilizers had been laying the groundwork for.
*We finish what Sera started,* my wolf said.
Yes, I said.
*And Ren finishes what we start.*
Yes.
*And whatever comes after Ren—*
Has a better foundation than any of us had, I said. Because each generation builds from what the previous one completed rather than what they managed despite the interference.
*Exactly,* my wolf said. *That's the arc. Finally running clean.*
The compound appeared on the horizon.
The gate open.
Ziko vis
