MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter fifty one — Inside Ironveil
The person's name was Sera.
Third rank. Records coordinator. She had been in Ironveil for two years before the Gathering filing documentation in the east wing three corridors away from Mara.
They had never spoken.
They had passed each other in corridors without looking.
Two invisible people in the same building not knowing the other existed.
Mara thought about that.
About how loneliness worked in a pack.
Not just for Hollow wolves.
For everyone the system had decided did not matter enough to see.
She looked at Sera across the table.
"What do you want," she said quietly.
Sera looked at her hands.
"The same thing you want," she said. "I think." She paused. "I just went about finding it the wrong way."
"You fed informat
