Lenora's POV
The three weeks became ten days.
We moved fast and we moved carefully, which are usually in opposition but which the last six years had taught us to manage simultaneously.
Vane Sorel completed the ledger cross-reference. Full membership of eleven of the fourteen nodes. The remaining three had membership overlap with the eleven, giving us partial pictures that Lyssa's investigative methodology could complete.
The physician from the eastern territories — her name was Mara, and she was Harlan's age, with the particular tense efficiency of someone who has been living with dangerous information for too long — arrived at the confluence and gave a formal account to Lyssa and two oversight body members. Her account added the two capital council members and closed three node member
