Grayson's POV

I'd been awake since four.

This was not unusual the night before something significant. My body had always treated major events as tactical situations requiring advance preparation — extra hours of consciousness, full review of variables, identification of anything that could go wrong. Arthur's version of this was simply to pace the perimeter of whatever room we were in and think about nothing articulable.

We'd been doing it together since three-fifty when I ...