She'd been following the Hollowmere reports the way she followed everything that mattered to her now — quietly, persistently, accumulating understanding in pieces nobody fully tracked until she demonstrated, all at once, how much she'd absorbed.
She found Sera in the study on a Sunday evening, the reports from Tavri spread across the desk, Senna's case the latest addition to a growing file of careful, patient progress.
"I want to talk to you about something," Rowan said, with the specific formal opening she'd started using for conversations she considered important — a habit, Sera suspected, picked up from watching the adults around her treat serious things with serious openings.
"Go ahead," Sera said, setting the reports aside.
"I've been thinking about Hollowmere," Rowan said. "About
