Uinta Mountains, Utah
The Garden of Divine Light
I’m awake. Like… I’m really really awake. Tonight is the night.
Iris lay in the women’s ward with her eyes closed; she was stock-still and consciously breathing deep and slow. Anyone passing by and checking on the open-plan room would think that eleven women were fast asleep in their single beds, in their long white nightgowns, in the moonlight.
But I’m not asleep.
Not anymore.
She was ready to go, to just get up and walk out of the Garden – but she had to wait. Gideon had sent for Violet about two hours earlier and she hadn’t come back to the ward yet, and Iris knew better than to risk leaving before the other woman’s return. There would be a Guardian roaming the compound somewhere to keep himself awake, waiting for the signal from Gi
