Chapter 24: Søren Breaks Silence

The plan they made over dinner was simple, which was how Callum knew it would go wrong in ways he hadn't anticipated.

Midnight. The east corridor. All three of them.

Priya had said, with the methodical calm she deployed when her hands wanted to shake: "If the corridor extends when observed alone, we need to know whether it extends when observed together. The variable is either the observer or the act of observation itself. Those are different problems with different solutions." She'd written this in the margin of a history exercise so that if anyone saw it, it would look like a note about methodology rather than evidence of what they were actually planning.