Chapter 15 - IONE WITHOUT A TITLE
Ione lost no money.
No house.
No jewelry.
No family name.
She lost the Heritage Committee chair because the trust board concluded her use of obsolete disciplinary doctrine made her unsuitable to run children’s programming.
She remained a donor.
Archive volunteer later.
No punishment theater.
At first she hated being ordinary.
Then she became very good at cataloguing old letters.
She knew handwriting.
Dates.
Which aunt secretly hated which cousin.
Useful.
Not commanding.
One day she found an 1898 letter from the ancestor who chose the wolf crest.
He wrote:
The wolf is not the family. It is merely an image my children like.
Ione showed it to me.
Neither of us spoke for a moment.
Then she laughed.
Years of ideology.
May you like
The founder thought the kids liked wolves.
History is cruel to people who overinterpret it.
