Twenty-five years after Elena’s birth, I stood at the entrance of what had become the largest Convergence campus and watched students arrive for the new term.There were two hundred of them. Young wolves from thirty different territories, some allied and some not. They came to learn not just power control but ethics, leadership, conflict resolution, and critical thinking. They came because Convergence had proven itself. Because graduates went home and made their packs stronger, more stable, and more capable of navigating complex modern challenges.And they came because Elena had built something that outlasted crisis. That thrived in peace.I was fifty-two now. Damien was fifty-seven. We had aged normally, while Elena had remained frozen at what appeared to be middle age since she was seventeen. She looked older than us now, though she was only twenty-five.“Strange, is it not?” Damien said, coming to stand beside me. “She looks like she could be our older sister instead of our daughte
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