Kiki helped herself to some tea, and Jeff got water, before they took their respective seats. The hacker plunked himself down on Lance’s left, while Kiki pulled out the chair next to her sister. “Okay,” she announced, “we’re here. So what did we miss?”
Lance replied, “You mean besides your sister’s houseguest turning out to be a hybrid soldier from the base in Secret Canyon?”
Even as Kiki’s cornflower-blue eyes — a few shades lighter than Kara’s — opened wide, Persephone said hastily, “That’s the main gist of it. But until a short time ago, he didn’t remember anything of who he was or where he came from, so we’re trying to figure out how that could have happened.”
Michael folded his hands on the tabletop. Even a quarter-century after losing his wife, he still wore a plain silver band on
