She was still holding the phone when I walked back into the kitchen, and something about the way she was standing told me the ground had shifted again while I'd been gone getting ice for a drink nobody was going to finish.
"Mia."
She held up a finger, not looking at me, listening to whatever Priya was saying on the other end. Sera had gone still against the counter, watching her the way you watch someone standing near a ledge.
"Say it again," Mia said into the phone. "Slowly."
I couldn't hear the other side, just the low tone of a voice moving fast, and I made myself stay where I was instead of crossing the kitchen and taking the phone out of her hand, which was what every instinct in me wanted to do.
"Okay," Mia said finally. "Okay. Don't do anything with it yet. Don't tell anyone yo
