Chapter 26: Priya Destroys the Notebook

He found them both in the small library.

It was not chance. The small library — Priya's library, the one she had discovered through systematic elimination and trusted because its window showed a consistent view, because the castle had not yet learned to lie through it — had become the place they went when they needed to think without the building listening too carefully. They had not said this to each other. They had simply ended up here, separately and then together, enough times that it had become a fact.

Priya was already seated. Søren was at the window with his back to the room, watching the consistent courtyard, and the line of his shoulders said that he had been there a while.