(Dane)
I heard the car before I saw her.
The sound of it pulling into the compound. The engine cutting. The door.
I was in the kitchen when she came through the door. She looked different from how she'd looked this morning when she left. Not in appearance. Just in the way she was carrying herself. Something had settled in her that hadn't been there before.
I didn't need to ask how it went.
"Well?" I said anyway.
She dropped her bag on the chair and looked at me.
"She said yes," she said.
I nodded once.
"Just like that?" I said.
"Just like that," she said. "Harlow vouched for me. I answered her questions. She told me to start the licensing course this week and come back when I'm ready to sit the exam."
"And then?"
"Junior agent," she said. "She pairs new people with a senior age
