(kealen)
He told me three days in advance, which was unusual.
Theron didn't typically announce things. He organized them and then they happened and he was already three steps ahead of everyone's questions by the time anyone thought to ask. So when he sat across from me at the kitchen island on a Tuesday morning and said "I need you free on Friday," I looked up from the patrol schedule I was reviewing.
"Free how?" I asked.
"For the day," he said. "And the night."
I put the patrol schedule down. "Kiara—"
"Lara is taking her," he said. "Mira will be on call. Sora has the pack covered." He held my gaze. "You have been back at full governance capacity for six weeks and you negotiated two border agreements and handled the Ironwood follow-up and you haven't had a day that wasn't about somet
