Episode Twenty-Eight: "The New Wardens"

The formal ceremony. Scarlett and Danica are invested as Junior Wardens of the Bright Gate by Queen Aura, in the Court of the Bright Morning, with every character present. The Silver Fox clan attends — Clarity and his restored kin, silver and elegant and finally home. Ember is there, having come from the Western Reaches with Brightwing — Brightwing is enormous and magnificent and very careful and absolutely delighted by Danica, who pats her on the nose. Pip produces things from his ears that are all, for once, genuinely useful and appropriate: flowers, a small drum, a length of silver ribbon, and at the very end — a second photograph. This one taken somehow in Luminos. The whole group. Every single member. Framed and clear. Nobody knows how Pip's ear knew to produce this. Root, asked later, says only: *"Gardens remember."* The ceremony ends. The girls wear their cloaks. They are Wardens.