The assessment of the twelve wolves took eight days.
She was part of it, which had not been the original plan but became necessary when it became clear that several of the twelve carried something that required more than Ryker's intelligence debrief and Eleanor's medical assessment to understand. Not dark magic, not active working, but the residue of long proximity to both. The particular quality of people who had been in Morgana's world long enough for it to leave marks that weren't visible to ordinary perception.
She sat with each of them individually, the same way Fenra had sat with people, without agenda and without the pressure of a specific outcome. Listening rather than assessing, though the assessment happened through the listening.
What she found was varied.
