KIERAN'S POVEight years after the treaty, I made a decision about the Alpha position.It came to me quietly, not as crisis or dramatic revelation, but as the simple understanding that I'd been running the territory for twenty years and I was ready to do something else.I was sitting in a governance board meeting when Director Draven asked about territorial succession planning and I realized I didn't have an answer because I'd never let myself think about stepping down.That evening, I mentioned it to Eli without preamble."I want to transition the Alpha position," I said. "Within the next few years."He looked up from his curriculum notes. "To who.""I don't know yet. That's the work I need to do." I paused. "But I don't want to do it forever. I want to do it until it's stable and then step back.""The way I did with the regional oversight.""Yes," I said. "Except I want to have already trained my replacement before I hand it over. I don't want to just leave it for someone else to fi
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