Epilogue: Closed Doors

KIRA

Three things arrived in the same week in February, six months after the ceremony, four months after Noa's first word.

The first was Rafael.

He rode in on a Tuesday with two riders and no advance notice, which was how he operated when he wasn't performing, and he appeared in the map room doorway with the expression he had when he'd decided something and had come to say it directly rather than through channels.

Dante looked up from the table.

I looked up from the ...