The meeting request came with a photograph.
Selene did not know this when she came down to breakfast on Thursday morning. She knew something had arrived because the pack house had the careful quality it always had when information of weight had entered it before most people were awake, that particular texture of a space where certain people already knew something and were managing the knowing while the rest of the world caught up.
She had her tea with Greta and watched the kitchen and did not ask.
She went to the library at seven.
At seven thirty Rhys knocked on the open library door and came in with a folder and sat across from her with the direct efficiency that meant the thing he was about to say was not going to have a preamble.
"Cain Voss sent his formal meeting request this morn
