MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Seventy three — Before Dawn
They had two hours before first light.
Rhen moved the moment Mara gave the word.
He had the vehicles ready in forty minutes.
He had the route mapped in twenty.
He had food and water and the full set of program files copied and secured in a separate location before the hour was out.
Mara watched him work.
She had never fully understood how much of everything held together because Rhen simply kept moving.
She understood it now.
She looked at the compound around her.
At the lights coming on in windows.
At Corvin moving through the east building waking council members quietly.
At Aldric at the archive table already opening files with the specific careful urgency of a man who understood that this was the most important thin
