Chapter 268 First Morning Back Cont

• "Please," I said. Meaning it. Understanding that united front mattered. That visible alliance between complicated relationships would either normalize what we were building or make us all targets for traditional factions who opposed change.
• They joined us. Creating statement. Chosen family refusing to hide. Refusing to apologize. Refusing to let tradition override divine design or personal choice or love that defied categories.
• Nova leaned forward conspiratorially. "Well, that's going to make things interesting. Royal princess publicly dating female wolf-mage while Eclipse wolf maintains dual mate bonds. We're basically a walking political statement at this point."