She didn't sleep well.
Not because the question was unanswerable — it wasn't, not completely, there were real answers to find and real changes to make if the examination revealed them. But because between the archive and the bedroom there had been a stretch of corridor in which Darius had said, quietly: "I want to ask you something, and I need you to hear it as a question, not an accusation."
"Go ahead," she said.
"The baseline," he said. "What you found in the archive — Asha's warning about the second burial. And the baseline reading you've been doing, since Marrow. The way you felt the structure between Zane and Petra without their knowledge." He held the corridor. "Is the baseline — could the baseline be a form of the same thing? Knowing more about people than they've chosen to share
