The Choosing

CALLA'S POV

Freya was eight months old when she produced the single most effective social maneuver I had ever witnessed, and she did it at Beatrix's Sunday dinner table without any apparent awareness that it was remarkable.

The context: the full estate gathering. Beatrix at the head, Sylvia two seats down, several Wolfe relatives whose names I was still learning, two pack elders who had been atten