RILEY
We told Luna on a Sunday evening after dinner, the four of us at the kitchen table with the intentional arrangement that the twins had learned over the months to identify as a conversation that mattered — the cleared table, both parents present and settled rather than in transit, the quality of attention in the room that said this was the main event rather than a prelude.
Hunter had his hands flat on the table surface and his full listening deployment active — the posture he used when he'd decided he was going to receive information accurately and process it thoroughly and ask the questions that came from thorough processing rather than surface reaction. He'd learned this from Knox. Or Knox had recognized it in him and named it, which was different and more accurate — it had always
