# MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
## Chapter Twenty Six — *The Mountain*
The plan was simple.
Simple plans were the ones that worked.
Simple plans were also the ones that fell apart in the most spectacular ways when the mountain was cold and the enemy was a woman who had spent twenty three years being trusted by everyone she had ever met.
Mara knew both of those things.
She walked out of the main building anyway.
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The compound was quiet in the specific way of a place that was pretending to be normal while everyone inside it was doing something deliberate.
Rhen's wolves at their posts.
Edmund at the window of the east building watching the tree line.
Brath and his fourteen wolves outside the gate doing whatever Brath had decided to do with himself now that he had come inside and said t
