Remi POV
"You should have told her….You skipped it."
Manuel's voice. From the front of the group.
"I didn't skip it." Mitch Slightly defensive. "I categorised it under secondary implications and prioritised the primary data points which were the Olandria bloodline connection and the creature origin sequence and—"
"Mitch."
"The secondary category was clearly labelled—"
"It's not secondary."
"In my organisational system—"
"MITCH."
Silence.
I looked between them from the back of my horse. We'd been riding for three hours. The Moonstone palace was far enough behind us now that I could feel the distance in my chest. That specific stretch. Like something being pulled.
"What did he skip?" I asked.
Manuel turned in his saddle. Looked at me with the expression of a man who had been tryi
