Ethan's POV
I find out my daughter is on the front from a logistics officer.
Not from Lyra. Not from my Beta. A mid-rank quartermaster stops me outside the officers' wing, in the careful tone of a man who clearly isn't sure he should be speaking, and asks whether the child in the visitors' annex needs a separate ration allotment logged under my name.
"What child?"
The quartermaster's face goes through something. "The little girl, Alpha Blackwood. She came in with Lady Lyra's caravan. We logged her under your dependents."
For a second I can't move.
Then I'm walking, fast. The quartermaster calls something after me about forms. I don't catch a word of it.
Yuki is in the visitors' annex. She's sitting on a cot with her knees pulled up, drawing something in a notebook with a stub of pen
