(Noah)
She was sitting on the steps outside when I pulled through the gate.
Not inside waiting. Outside, on the front steps of the compound with her knees pulled up and her phone face down beside her, looking out at nothing in particular. She looked up when the car came through and watched me get out without moving from where she was.
I walked over and sat down beside her.
Neither of us said anything for a moment.
The compound was quiet around us. A few men moving in the background, the distant sound of a vehicle somewhere on the other side of the yard.
"It's really done," she said finally. Not a question.
"It's really done," I said.
She looked out at the yard again.
"All of it," she said. "Reyes. Harrell. Alina."
"All of it," I said.
She was quiet for another moment.
"How did
