Mira left without being asked. She simply closed the old leather book, set it back on its shelf with quiet practiced hands, and walked out of the herb room without a word, pulling the door almost shut behind her. I did not look away from Zane when she left, and he did not look away from me, and the room settled into a silence that was somehow both uncomfortable and completely natural at the same time.He straightened from the doorframe and walked into the room, moving the way he did everything, unhurried and deliberate, like he had already decided exactly how much space he intended to take up and was simply occupying it. He stopped at the opposite end of the worktable and looked at me across the length of it, and I sat on my stool and looked back at him and waited for him to say whatever he had come in here to say."How much did you hear?" I asked, when the silence had stretched long enough."Enough," he said, without any particular expression on his face. I waited for him to elaborat
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