Anna's POV
We go after Cass the way you go after a fire, carefully, from the edges, trying not to get burned, and for a few days it almost feels like we're winning.
Will gives us pieces. Frightened, hedged, looking over his shoulder the whole time, but pieces, when Cass's shipments come in, how the money moves, the names of the people Cass works through. I take those pieces and do what I do, fold them into what I've already dug up, build the picture wider and deeper. Evan watches the crew, uses his senses in ways I'm still getting used to, tracks who comes and goes from the cannery. And in the evenings we meet at the headland and put it all together, and slowly, slowly, the shape of Cass's operation comes clear, and for the first time since this started I feel like we're not just being h
