The ceremony happened on a Thursday.

Not because Thursday was significant in any tradition Marina knew. Because Thursday was two days after the conversation in the frequency work space and Marina had said two days and she had meant it.

Vael offered the eastern community's central gathering space. Marina had expected to feel that the setting was wrong, too far from Bloodfang, too far from the pack who should witness it, too distant from the hollow and the three ancient trees and the Sacred Den where everything between her and Silvain had its deepest roots.

She did not feel that.

The ceremony was between two people. The setting was where...