Marlowe
Dinner that evening gathered more of the found family than I'd actually anticipated, word apparently spreading fast once Bear mentioned to Cricket that King had asked him to make sure everyone important was actually present — a detail that had clearly tipped off half the den to the fact that something significant was coming.
"You're doing the thing," Nova said the moment I walked in, eyes narrowed with immediate suspicion. "The thing where you're trying to look casual, but you're actually holding yourself like you're about to announce something enormous."
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You absolutely do." She studied me a moment longer, and I watched her expression shift from suspicion into something considerably more hopeful. "Wait. Is this what I think this is?"
