The workrooms were at the back of the house.Not a bedroom. Not a test hall. A long table, ledgers, a map of roads and names. People came in, spoke low to Mara, then looked at Sienna like they already knew her hands.Lily-Rose stood beside her because Mara had said visible.That word felt like a hook in her shirt.Sienna moved through the room as if her body remembered it. She read a list. She crossed out a name. She told a man the east stretch stayed closed and did not raise her voice. The man nodded and left fast.Lily-Rose watched her and felt two things at once.This was the woman who had kissed her with the door open.This was also the woman Hale had sent.“You look like you never left,” Lily-Rose said, quiet.Sienna did not glance up from the page.“I left. The house kept the shape of me.”Jimmy sat near the wall, where Mara had put him. He watched Lily-Rose more than the work. Every time Sienna leaned close to show her a name, his eyes sharpened.Lily-Rose felt those eyes and d
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