Remy found Odessa in the library at six in the morning.
He had not gone to sleep. This was not unusual for him in periods of high operational importance — his relationship with sleep had been complicated for two centuries by the simple fact that his mind did not slow the way human minds slowed, that the processing never fully stopped, that what passed for rest in his case was more accurately described as a change in mode rather than a cessation. He lay down. He was horizontal. His body recovered. His mind kept moving.
Tonight his mind had moved through the preparation workings she'd mentioned — the three texts she'd identified in his collection — and had arrived by four in the morning at a sequence of specific requirements that he needed to verify with her before he could begin.
She was
