DAX'S POV
May.
Five weeks after the arrival. The particular quality of May in the city — not the argumentative spring of March, not the tentative beginning of April, but May properly: the light longer, the warmth committed, the city with its specific energy of a place that has remembered what it is when not contracted against the cold.
He ran at four-thirty, as he always did.
Came back at five-twenty to the penthouse where Isolde was awake — she was, at five weeks, developing a morning schedule of her own, which involved being awake at approximately five and having opinions about this — and Remi was at the kitchen island with tea and the particular quality of someone who has been awake for twenty minutes managing the situation with her characteristic efficient composure.
He took Isold
