The Rogue Queen's Rise
She doesn't say anything to that, but she doesn't look away either, and when she goes to sit across from Cole a moment later — not talking yet, just present, the way Wells was present for her on her own first morning — I understand that whatever this pack is becoming, it's teaching all of us the same lesson at slightly different speeds.
Renata gets him settled with the same ritual she gives everyone — boots, flashlight, knife, no explanation beyond you'll need them eventually — and it's only once he's fed and half-asleep on a cot in the corner that she pulls me aside, voice low enough that even Wells, three feet away, has to lean in to catch it.
"Word's spreading," she says. "That's not noth