Location:Seven Peaks — Raven's Office
Date/Time:TC1856.01.13 (Evening)
The command center emptied. Kairos didn't leave.
He stood at the back wall where he'd stood through the entire recording, sword against the wall, and when the last person was gone, he walked to her desk and sat across from her without being invited. That was new. The Kairos of a year ago would have waited to be asked.
Raven activated the privacy formations. Triple seal. The room hummed and went quiet.
"So," she said.
"So." He leaned back in the chair. The sword was still against the wall — the first time since he'd arrived that he'd put distance between himself and the blade. As if the conversation ahead required hands free of weapons. "That wasn't a devourer construct."
"No."
"And we both know it."
