SILO POV
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He found her at the east wall at first light.
She was there because she was always at the east wall at first light — she'd made the first morning check hers somewhere in the weeks since arriving, the way she'd made things hers quietly, by simply doing them until they were established. Nobody had asked. Nobody had objected. Silo had noted it and said nothing and adjusted his own rotation to come in at the same time, which he'd also said nothing about.
They both knew. That was the arrangement.
"After," he said, when he reached her.
She turned.
"After," she confirmed.
He sat down on the east wall's low stone edge — the section he'd checked eleven times since the compound was built and could do in the dark. She sat beside him. The distance between them was the distance it
