Chapter Fourteen
Sera does not look like a woman woken at five in the morning.
She looks like a woman who was already awake and waiting for someone to finally knock. She opens the door in full clothes with a cup of tea in her hand and her silver hair pinned back and she looks at me and Caden and Nora standing in her corridor and she says: "I know about the second attachment."
I stare at her.
"How," Caden says.
"Because I have had a contact on the regional council for forty years and she called me two hours ago." Sera steps back from the door. "Come in. All of you. We have twenty-eight hours and I have been thinking."
She has been thinking the way architects think. Not about the problem in front of her but about the structure underneath it. By the time she finishes laying it out I und
