Three months in, Rowan had developed strong opinions about the training ring.
Not from experience — Rowan had not been to the training ring, Kira had been clear about the timing and the timing was not yet. But the bond carried everything, and when I was in the ring, Rowan's thread changed quality in the specific way it changed when something was being registered and sorted into the growing inventory of the world.
I was not training at full capacity yet.
Petra had been patient about this in the way she was patient about everything that required her attention to extend across multiple variables. She had calibrated the sessions to the post-pregnancy recovery timeline and the bond's new complexity and the specific physical reality of a woman whose body had done something enormous and was st
