NEVA POV
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Corva finished her list nine days after the second wedding, and the sight of it — thirty-one names, spanning eleven territories, each connected to the two-century structure through some inherited thread of grief or obligation — settled a weight over the round table that neither wedding's joy had fully prepared us to carry again.
"Thirty-one," Ryke said, reading the document Mitch had assembled from Corva's knowledge. "That's considerably more than I braced for."
"Most of them likely carry no active risk," Corva said. "The pattern Sable represents — grief transformed into misguided purpose — requires a specific combination of proximity, loss, and identity built too closely around the family's role in the structure. I'd estimate perhaps a handful genuinely warrant concern."
