DANTE

The Allied Council convened on a Monday in the third week of the new year.

Not in the Northern Territory. Neutral ground, the same Border House that had held the first summit, which Marcus had suggested and which I had agreed to because the symbolism of it was right, the place where the coalition had begun becoming the place where the accounting happened.

We rode out Sunday evening, a larger group than the summit had been. Kira and I, Marcus and Sable, Senna, Lyra. Two of Marcus's ...