Gareth was awake.
Michael found him in the hallway outside his room sitting on the floor with his back against the wall and the notebook on his knee and the pen in his hand and the particular look of someone who had been awake for a while and had been sitting with something.
He looked up when Michael came around the corner and looked at Michael's face and said "they moved" before Michael said anything.
"The variants consolidated," Michael said. "Northeast, half block spacing, two hours ago."
Gareth looked at the notebook. "I've been running the pattern in my head," he said.
"The Aberrant stationary period. Forty six hours of nothing. That's not patience anymore, that's a held position." He looked up. "Something is about to change."
"Watchtower from first light," Michael said. "Full monitoring. Any movement in either population you signal immediately."
"I'll be up at five," Gareth said.
Michael looked at him. "You were already awake."
