Another silence.
"The system paired her with all of us," Silas said. Quietly. Like he was placing the words down carefully, making sure they were real before he let himself believe them.
"So it would appear," Blaze said.
Everyone looked at Blaze.
He was looking at the projection. His green eyes were steady and completely unreadable, and his face had gone to the particular blankness he deployed when something had happened that he needed significantly more time to process than the current situation was going to allow him. The line of his jaw was tight. His hands were flat on the table.
He looked, Ella thought, like a man whose entire operational framework had just been reorganized without his consent.
She looked at the projection for a moment longer. Four S-rank males. Four out of five
