AARYN
Following Elreth through the rest of that day only made it clear to Aaryn that she'd been right about not being able to be both Alpha and Advisor at the same time. Person after person she had to speak with, gather information from, give orders to. It seemed like for every decision she made, every task she completed, two new ones cropped up.
They'd left her parents—her father still over at Gar's tree—and headed straight back to the Tree City to find the women's council leaders and find out how quickly they could prepare the ceremony to establish the disformed.
That led to a discussion with Tarkyn because Elreth wanted patrols around the City that even after she'd made the announcement, just in case.