Chapter 86: What He Kept

The Tracker talked by morning.

Not immediately—he had held through the first two hours with the specific patience of a man who had been trained to resist and was applying that training out of habit rather than hope. By hour three he had started answering the questions that did not matter. By hour five he was answering the ones that did. Sebastian brought the summary to the war room at 0730 and set it on the table in front of Raven without preamble.

She read it twice.

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