MAYA'S POVWe locked the annex the way we'd found it.Damien pulled the door shut and I turned the key and pocketed it and we stood outside in the Cascade morning with the snow peaks above us and the trees doing their quiet work around the building and neither of us said anything for a moment.The frequency was different now.Not pulling, not surging, not the forward direction of something guiding. Just present. The way a room felt different after someone entered it, the specific change in quality that had nothing to do with sound or light but registered anyway."We should call Reed," I said."Yes," Damien said. "After you eat something."I looked at him."You haven't eaten since last night," he said. "And you just made contact with a consciousness that's been sealed in a secondary pathway for eighteen years. Eat first."He was already walking toward the car.I followed, because he wasn't wrong, and because the specific quality of being known by someone well enough that they tracked w
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