LIORA'S POV
The week following the beam incident had been quiet, but it was a kind of silence which came with the feeling that ‘this is the calm before the storm’.
After the beam incident, Silas wasn't just a supervisor anymore; he was one of us. Marcus had cleared him, the rest of us got more comfortable around him. Even Kira no longer looked at him with her suspicious sharp eyes that could pierce into your soul.
For a whole week, the "ghosts" Silas had been complaining about seemed to have vanished. No more ‘falling beams’, no melting chains, and no feeling of being watched from a distance. It was the first time since this library Project I felt like I could actually breathe.
I sat in the temporary office trailer on Monday evening, staring at a stack of invoices that seemed to doub
