"Wren," I said.
"Yes."
"How much of your family's archive have you gone through."
"All of it," she said. "The relevant sections. I've been very thorough."
"And in all of it — the Stabilizer records, the previous three cases, everything they've accumulated — what's your conclusion about what the fourth convergence actually needs."
A pause.
"What it has," she said. "Already. The genuine people. The real crew. The Alpha who built it before he knew what he was building it for." She paused. "And a mother who got on a motorcycle in the dark and didn't ask permission to become what she became."
The back room was very quiet.
My wolf went entirely, completely warm.
*She did her research,* she said.
Yes, I said.
*She's been watching us.*
Not us specifically. The compound. The arc of what
