Coda
Miri and Dark sat up talking through the night. Miri couldn’t help but tell him everything he wanted to know. It felt right.
Dark was furious to hear about Abstraction, and that dragons had given up their shares of the aquifer. He was sadly confused at how much things had changed.
Her phone rang. It was Laner. The files. She still had to review them.
She left Dark alone in his cage—he didn’t want to hear any more. She sat in the long, empty hallway, going through the reports.
She wished she had taken Earl up on his offer to stop for a few bottles of wine.
Then the door opened, and Earl entered at the far side of the hallway, a grocery bag in his hand. Wine bottles clinked inside. He tipped his hat to her, and she read with renewed energy.
Lucan and Celesse rolled over on his b
