NEVA POV
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Daven's response came twelve hours after Mitch's footage went up in the Territory Digest.
Not a legal filing. Not a counter-piece. Not another public statement.
A letter. Physical. Delivered to the compound gate by a courier who waited for a signed confirmation of receipt, which Silo gave with the expression of a man who was already suspicious of the envelope before he'd opened it.
He brought it to the back room unopened.
We looked at it on the table for a moment. The handwriting on the front was precise — the handwriting of someone who'd decided that even antagonism should be well-organized.
*To: Neva Aris-Mallen, Ashveil compound.*
Aris-Mallen.
My wolf: *He's acknowledging the bond.*
He's doing more than that, I told her. He's acknowledging that he's been watching
