The criminal session for Rennick Vael's full prosecution was scheduled to begin on a Tuesday at nine a.m.
Adisa sent the briefing package on the Friday before. Forty-one pages. I read all of it before bed, which was a choice I had made many times before and which produced the same result — the specific kind of sleeplessness that came not from anxiety but from a mind that was still processing.
At two a.m., Zevran, who was in his own floor-four unit because we had made the decision that we both slept better with our own sleeping spaces and worse when we were worried about the other person knowing we were awake — knocked once on the ceiling.
His way of checking.
I knocked back twice. I'm fine.
He knocked twice in response. Good.
I lay in the dark and thought about Celeste Horne.
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