The session ended at three-seventeen.
Sera was in the training ring when she felt the change in the bond — not a signal, just the quality of Darius's attention shifting back from the specific, narrowed focus of administrative work to something broader. More ambient. The difference between a person looking through a window at one specific thing and a person looking at a window that had become a window again, showing everything outside it.
She finished her sequence. She showered. She picked Rowan up from the learning program at four, listened to forty minutes of highly detailed reporting about a project involving maps of imaginary territories that Pip had apparently initiated and that Rowan had become, in her characteristic way, completely absorbed in.
She made dinner.
Darius came home a
