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Jade's File

Author: Winmo
last update publish date: 2026-07-03 05:40:44

~Lyra's POV~

We drove past the café twice before stopping.

Torvi's habit, and a good one. The eastern commercial district was the kind of neighbourhood that operated late, restaurants, late-night pharmacies, the particular mix of people who had somewhere specific to be at eleven PM and weren't advertising it. The café was a small corner unit, one window, a handful of tables, the kind of place where nobody looked up when someone came in.

I went in alone. Xavier went in two minutes later, found a
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