~LYRA'S POV~
The formal visit to Moonveil came three months after the Luna ceremony, as part of the structured review of how each pack was integrating into the unified framework. I'd done Shadowfang's review the month before, and Silverclaw's was ongoing by default since I was there every day. Moonveil was the last.
Eren met me at the border with his usual economy of expression, a nod, a brief orientation to the schedule, the practical efficiency of someone who had prepared well and didn't need to perform the preparation. The review itself took two days and went cleanly. Moonveil's integration had been the smoothest of the three, which surprised no one who knew Eren.
It was the third evening that mattered.
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He took me to the mystic archives after dinner. Not on the formal schedule, he'd asked, the night before, whether I wanted to see them, and I'd said yes immediately because I'd been curious about them since Mira had first mentioned they existed.
