Terms of dissolution of marriage between Vespera Ashborn and Magnus Ashborn.
Magnus read the line.
He read it again.
He turned to the second page. Asset division. Co-ownership restructuring. Guild equity clauses. Custody terms for Alice, with Vespera requesting sole guardianship pending review by the Awakened Family Court.
He turned to the third page. Signatures. Vespera's was already there, precise and unhurried, the same penmanship she used on guild contracts and kill confirmations. Beneath it, a blank line waited for his.
He went back to the first page and read the opening line again.
Terms of dissolution of marriage.
Forty minutes ago. She had sent this forty minutes ago. Before he'd called Eleanora. Before he'd called Vespera. She had watched the stream, seen the confrontation between Magnus and Kaiden play out live, and known with absolute certainty how the rest of the evening would unfold. The papers were already prepared long before...
