He looked at the map on the wall.
"And I've been less certain than my father was," he said. "For some time."
The farmhouse held that.
My wolf: *There it is.*
Yes, I said.
*He's been watching us for months,* she said. *What has he been watching?*
He's been watching us build something, I said.
*And?*
And I think what he's been watching has been making the argument better than I could.
"Tell me what you've seen," I said. "In the months you've been watching the compound. Specifically."
He looked at me.
"Why."
"Because you've been building a case for sixty years based on the destruction the convergence causes," I said. "But you've been watching this one from six miles for months and you haven't moved. You've tested the perimeter once. You ran a signal check. That's not the behavior
