Arwen's POV
I find Maya in the library before first class and put the folded paper on the table between us without saying anything.
Maya reads the name. Reads it again. Then looks up at me with the expression she gets when something she suspected has just been confirmed and she wishes it hadn't been.
"Vance," she says quietly.
"You know it."
"I know the name from the restricted archives. I didn't connect it to Ashcroft because I wasn't looking for a connection." She folds the paper and slides it back to me and immediately opens her notebook. "Give me until lunch. I need to pull everything I have on the Vance family specifically."
"How much is there?"
"Enough that I should have found it sooner." She is already writing a list of sources, her pen moving fast. "Go to class. Keep your fa
