Ivy's POVMaren talks for a long time.We move to the library because the corridor is exposed and the empty room feels like a crime scene. Four of us surround the low table.Maren lays it out cleanly. ‘The group; four of them, all Pack-born, two operating from the borderlands between Pack territory and Syndicate-adjacent settlements. Watching the political situation for two years.’She puts documents on the table as she talks.Printed transmissions, handwritten notes, a timeline that starts eighteen months ago and ends four days from now. I watch Caelum look at the timeline and go very still."You've known about this group," I say to him, when Maren pauses.He doesn't deny it. "I suspected something like it existed. There have been little irregularities. Nothing I could bring to Soren without looking like I was seeing problems where there were none." He looks at Maren, "I didn't know it was you.""I know," she says."How long?""Eighteen months."Something moves through his jaw. He lo
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