Lynn's POV

I sat down at the desk in the Luna office and didn't move for a while.

The mind-link pinged twice. Grayson's presence at the edge of it — careful, tentative, the way someone knocks on a door they're not sure they're welcome at. I closed it off. Not violently. Just shut the door and locked it.

He tried the bond next. A low current of something that was probably meant to feel like reassurance. Istha intercepted it before it reached me and sent it straight back. I ...