DANTE

It started at three in the morning.

Not dramatically. Kira woke and lay still for a moment and then said, quietly, in the dark, get Dara, and I was out of the bed before she finished the sentence.

The corridor was cold and I was not dressed for it and I didn't care. Dara's room was two corridors away and I covered the distance faster than I'd covered anything in months and knocked on her door and she opened it already mostly dressed because she had been sleeping lightly for two weeks ...