NEVA POV
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We drove to Caius and Lera's territory two days later, Ren strapped securely against Ryke's chest for the journey, her eyes wide and alert the way they'd gotten lately, taking in the passing landscape with the specific focused attention that Corva said meant her wolf was beginning to notice the world alongside her.
Lera met us at the door of the small house she and Caius had built for themselves — not the grand Vrel packhouse, something smaller and entirely theirs, chosen deliberately, I understood, as a place that belonged to the two of them rather than to history.
She looked tired in the way new mothers looked tired, and radiant in the way new mothers looked radiant, both at once, the exact expression I recognized from my own mirror in the weeks after Ren's birth.
"Come
