Chapter Twenty-Five — The Ambush
✦ Eve's POV ✦ It happened on a Tuesday evening, between the ward and the healers' quarters. I had taken the longer route — the one that went through the secondary corridor past the eastern stores, which added four minutes to the walk but avoided the main thoroughfare where the evening gather crowd spilled out into the hallway. I was tired in the specific way that came from a day of sessions and a full ward rotation both, the kind of tired that lived behind the eyes, and I wanted the four extra minutes of quiet before I reached the quarters and had to be a person again. I was almost at the stores junction when I heard them behind me. Three of them. I knew the number before I turned because I felt them — the specific emotional register of people moving with intent, the concentrated quali
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