MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Seventy Seven — Edmund In The Doorway
They came back in from the field.
Davan went to find Maren.
Caius went to check the compound's lower level.
Zane stayed in the kitchen making something that required his full attention and considerable creative optimism about the available ingredients.
Mara stood in the corridor.
She turned her phone back on.
Fourteen messages from Rhen.
She read the first one.
Files moving. Forty three territories reached. Corvin and Aldric have not stopped.
She read the last one.
All sixty three. Every territory. The records are open.
She held the phone.
She felt the second phase.
Moving through sixty three territories.
Not stopping.
Never stopping.
One year.
She held the phone against her chest.
She breathed.
Then
