Adrian came back in April.Not from Iceland this time — from a three-week field assignment in Budapest that the oversight body had sent him on and that he had, from the quality of his expression when he walked through the door, not enjoyed.He stood in the coalition main office and looked around at what had been built in the four months since he'd last been physically present.Sora at the training program desk. Felix with his group cohesion outlines. Cam on the floor with his laptop and three plants. The Oslo graduates filtering in and out. The intake logs Owen had left behind.Adrian looked at all of it for a long moment."It's very organized," he said."Cam reorganized the office," I said. "Nobody told him to.""And nobody told him not to, so he did it correctly." He looked at Cam, who looked up from his laptop."Hi," Cam said."Hello," Adrian said. He looked at me. "You trained him.""He trained himself," I said. "I just answered his calls."Adrian sat down in the chair across from
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