(Isla)
Caius left after we spoke.
Something about Pryor and the guard captain and the follow up from the settlement visit. He'd looked at me for a moment the way he looked at me when he was checking without asking, and then he'd gone.
I sat in our quarters for a while after he left.
The decision had been sitting with me since the healer's house. Not heavily. Not the way things used to sit on me when I had no way to move them. More like something waiting at the edge of my attention that I kept circling without landing on.
I reached for my phone and opened it.
I didn't know exactly what to search for at first. I typed pending sentence wolf pack law into the search and got results that were mostly about human legal systems which wasn't what I needed. I tried again. Pack law confession d
