It started with a name I didn't recognise in a meeting I shouldn't have been in.
Zevran had asked me to sit in on the outer territory committee's resource planning session. Not unusual — I'd been attending periodically since the winter access agreement. The agenda was straightforward: grant allocation, northern corridor infrastructure, the first cohort of Idris Mael scholarship recipients beginning their placements.
The name appeared in item seven.
New appointment to the committee's advisory panel. Someone from the High Council's financial oversight division — a liaison role, connecting the committee's work to the broader pack governance reform structures that Cassiel Drenn had been building for months.
The name on the document was Lenne Crone.
I felt the room go slightly sideways in
