[SERA — POV]
They arrived back in Veyrath at mid-afternoon.
She had her phone out before the car stopped, running through the messages that had accumulated while she'd been off-grid. Mira had sent three: two mundane updates and one that said Brennan is asking questions about you specifically. Nothing alarming yet. Stay careful. She texted back: Noted. Keep the routine.
There were also two messages from the duty office—standard administrative traffic that she'd need to respond to in a way that suggested she'd been in the building. Mira would have covered the visual, but communications required her own attention.
She wrote responses that were technically accurate and would be time-stamped to her official device, which was at the Flame building in Mira's custody for exactly this reason.
