He found her in northern California.
Marcus told me in the study — Darius's study, where Marcus now came with Beta business in the easy way of someone who had decided the study was a place he could be rather than a place he had to present himself to. He came in the afternoon with his phone and the expression I'd learned to read on him: the controlled surface over the thing that was moving underneath, but less controlled now than it used to be. The control was becoming less necessary.
"Tavri," he said. "Her name is Tavri. Aldis gave me the approximate location and I ran the contacts." He held his phone. "She's in a small pack in Humboldt. She's been there a while." He paused. "She didn't respond to my first contact."
"Or the second," I said. Reading his face.
"Or the second," he confirm
