Chapter 13: Mira Forces the First Honest Conversation

Mira found him by the third passage.

She had not needed to read anything to locate him—Elian Voss moved through the neutral hub with the specific purposefulness of someone who had selected his position in advance, placed himself where the light from the hub's sourceless glow fell at a precise angle to his notebook, and then arranged his expression to suggest he was too absorbed to be interrupted. She recognized the technique because she had invented several versions of it herself, in Ward Seven, when the orderlies made their rounds and she needed to be invisibly occupied.

She stopped three feet away and waited.