Mira closed the door behind her and sat down across from me.

I didn't look up. I was reading the latest ranking updates on my tablet, cross-referencing names against trial performance logs. A habit. Information was currency at Dominion and I never stopped collecting it.

"Talk," I said.

"Val Rhen," Mira said. "Three days of watching."

"And?"

"Something's wrong with him. Not performance wrong, strategy wrong. He never pushes his wolf forward in dominance exercises. Never shifts, even when it ...