~Selene's POV~
The drive north takes three hours, the same three hours it has always taken, though nothing else about the act of making it feels the same as the last time she did this in reverse.
She pulls out of the apartment complex a little after eight, the morning still cool, Miriam already settled in the passenger seat with a folder of documents on her lap that she insists on reviewing one more time even though she has reviewed it every day for the past week. The twins are buckled in behind them, Lior already protesting the confinement of the car seat with the particular outraged volume he reserves for anything that limits his movement, Asha quiet beside him, watching the window the way she watches most things, as though the passing scenery owes her an explanation it has not yet pro
