"And after the marriage."
"Krethven was reintroduced. Slowly. Through three generations of internal teaching. By the time the founding patriarch's prohibition resurfaced in any Valdrake archive — through a junior archivist's accidental discovery in the fifth generation after the union — the practice had been folded into Valdrake tradition under a different framing. It was presented as ancestral discipline. The discovery was suppressed. The archivist was reassigned. The practice continued."
"For six hundred years."
"For six hundred years. With variable frequency. The Office's records show seventeen documented Krethven events across that period."
He paused.
"Sister Iren will read the seventeen names now, if you can hear them. We have prepared the list with care. We have not added commentary. We will simply name them."
I nodded. I did not trust my voice for the answer.
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Iren read.
