BELLE'S POV Ilara calls on Saturday morning.Not a message — a call, which tells me something before she speaks. Ilara communicates in the specific register of her priority level and a call at eight in the morning on a Saturday means she has been in the records since Mira contacted her and has found something and is not willing to wait for it to become a message.I answer on the second ring."You felt it," she says. No preamble."Yesterday," I say. "For the first time directly. I said hello and something answered."A pause on her end.Not surprised — processing."Come to the hotel today," she says. "Bring Mira if she's available. And bring the Dorian research — the complete files, everything he left.""Why the Dorian research?" I say."Because," she says carefully, "I found something in the oldest records I have. Something I didn't think to connect until Mira's message arrived." A pause. "And I think Dorian may have found the same thing from a different direction."She hangs up.I lo
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