NYRAVessa had been in the Keep for four days before I understood exactly what she was doing.I had suspected from the first morning. The way she positioned herself at breakfast, the way she spoke to Orion in that low familiar voice, the way she looked at me when she thought I was not watching not with hostility, which would have been easier to address, but with something patient and almost sympathetic, like she felt sorry for me and wanted me to know it.But suspicion was not understanding. I needed to watch her work before I knew the shape of it.By the fourth day, I knew the shape of it.It started small.There was a gathering of the Keep's senior wolves, a weekly council that Mira had told me, on my first morning, that Luna was expected to attend. I had attended the first two. Both times I had sat at the table and said little and listened to everything and learned more about the structure of this household in an hour than I had learned from the records hall in a week. The wolves d
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