They'd been back in Montclair for four days when the first article appeared.
It ran on a fan community thread—Noah Hart and Arianne Summers spotted at a waterfront restaurant in Rohan. The photographs were long-lens, taken from across the street, the kind that caught motion without clarity. In most of them Franz was recognizable. In all of them, Arianne was not looking at the camera. The speculation wasn't about who she was—the thread already knew that. The speculation was about why they were in Rohan, whether the trip was personal or professional, and whether that was a baby carrier visible in the third photograph or just a very expensive bag. By morning the thread had sixty thousand replies.
