Bearing Witness

"Witness," I said.

Not a request. Not a declaration. The word that meant: *I am here and I see you and I'm asking the same in return.* The word that the Luna position was, at its core, about — the person in the pack whose particular authority is grounded in the act of paying attention.

The room was absolutely still.

Then Victor Graves, who had abstained from the preliminary vote and who had