The three nights the twins had requested became the new rhythm of the compound.
Yara and Nyra moved through the shared spaces with the original circle as if the arrangement had always existed. Elizabeth set the boundaries once, clearly, on the morning after the first night. No competition for position. No private alliances that undercut the group. No residual games of any kind. The twins accepted the terms without argument and kept them. What happened after that was frequent, intense, and treated as ordinary rather than exceptional.
