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Daniel waited outside her room, letting time roll past. They told him she didn’t often get up before late morning. He remembered the same from his days at Amaltheum, but he didn’t want to miss her. Didn’t want to give himself the opportunity to put off this meeting.
When the door opened with a jerk, he came alert from his lazy lean against the wall. “Dee? I didn’t think—you, alright?”
She was frantic, hands gripping at his shirt. “You don’t think anyone’s done something to Mike, do you? They don’t know about him, right?”
It took him a moment to understand what she was talking about. That, and her willingness to touch him, to speak to him, startled his mind to stupid.
“I—I don’t know. I don’t think his existence is public knowledge, but I can’t know for sure.”
“Who would know? I ne
