Her Three Alphas
Lyra's POV
The northern coordinates came in that morning, and I read them twice before I even reached for my coffee. Nadia set the tablet on the breakfast table with that particular economy of motion she had when the news she was delivering required its own space to breathe, three glowing clusters of markers pulsing against the terrain north of Moonveil, quiet and insistent, the way distant fire looks when you have not yet decided whether to walk toward it or away. I looked at them and felt the familiar pull of the silver light inside me, not a surge, not a warning, just a quiet recognition. They were there. Sixty, seventy, possibly more people. And they had been surviving in the cold and th