Chapter 287 --287
’The eastern operations are with Lilian. She is better at this than I gave her credit for in the first month. She doesn’t need me there.’
’I’ll be in the capital in three days.’
’Two if the road is clear.’
’Mahir.’
’PS — the system will have read this before you did. Tell it I said whatever it says to systems.’
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Elara read it.
Read it again.
Sat with it for a moment.
The system on her shoulder said nothing.
She looked at the PS.
Despite everything — despite every quality she had about her that didn’t work the way other people’s worked, despite a lifetime and a half of navigating the world through analysis rather than feeling, despite the specific way she processed things that wasn’t the standard model — she found something happening at the edges of her expression that was not fully professional.