She'd been at the table for two years now, regularly enough that her seat near the end had become, without anyone deciding it, simply hers. She still didn't talk much — old habits didn't dissolve because a door had opened, they just got walked through more often — but she'd developed, over time, a particular way of entering conversations: not gradually, the way most people eased in, but with a single, well-aimed question that landed in the middle of whatever was already happening and reorganized it.
This time the table had been talking about the training program — the new territories, the local practitioners Neva's methodology was producing, the specific challenge of teaching the attunement to people who'd never had bond sensitivity tested before.
"How many of them fail," Petra said.
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