Dante

Dara arrived on Thursday morning with the specific contained energy she had when an assessment mattered more than routine.

This was the twenty-week point. The major one she'd been marking on the calendar, the one that would tell us things the earlier assessments couldn't, the full picture that required time to develop before it could be read.

Kira had been calm about it in the way she was calm about things she was managing rather than things that weren't affecting her, the specific ...