They had ten days.
That was how long Helena's team needed to complete the initial processing of the forty-one survivors before repatriation could begin: medical clearances, documented accounts, coordination with beastfolk continental authorities. Ten days during which Owen and Yuki's group were technically registered Association contractors on active assignment and needed to be findable.
Ten days was enough time to turn Yuki's life inside out.
On the first day, she upgraded her apartment. Not drastically, she wasn't ready for a mansion, and Owen's presence in any space smaller than a warehouse was going to involve some creative furniture arrangement regardless of square footage, but she moved to a place in District Three with actual separate rooms and a ceiling high enough that his wings didn't create a constant ambient danger to hanging light fixtures.
