She came through the main gate the following morning with a larger bag.
Not the weekend version — the bag of someone who has made a decision overnight and is executing it before the thinking catches up to the doing. Roan issued her a resident pass with the specific efficiency of a Delta who had been told the road north was open and understood this applied universally.
Marcus was not at the gate.
Marcus was in the study giving Darius an account of what had happened on the trail run, which was the conversation he had known he needed to have and had been organizing since he walked Neva to the compound gate the previous afternoon.
I was in the kitchen when she arrived.
Luna found her first — of course Luna found her first, Luna had a specific gift for locating interesting arrivals before
