Cassian was irritated in a way that didn't resolve with controlled breathing or mental discipline, because the councilor's pressure had gone beyond acceptable and now throbbed like a poorly disguised order for results, demanding outcomes he simply didn't have yet, since until that moment, everything he'd found about Luara was too obvious to justify such surveillance: a wolf who'd survived when she shouldn't have, yes, but who since then had only collected emotional conflicts, broken bonds, ...