MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Sixty Six — Not Here
She read the message again.
Edmund is not here.
She looked at the door.
At the evening light outside.
At Ironveil settling into the quiet of early evening.
She picked up her phone.
She called Rhen.
He answered on the first ring.
"How long," she said.
"An hour," Rhen said. "Maybe more. His room is empty. His jacket is gone." A pause. "His folder is still on the council table."
She looked at the file on the east building table.
At Edmund's file.
He had left without it.
"Has anyone checked the grounds," she said.
"Corvin is checking now," Rhen said.
"The gate," she said.
"Guard logged him out at four seventeen," Rhen said. "On foot. Alone." A pause. "He said he was taking a walk."
She put the phone down.
She looked at the
