Nyx had the table cleared before anyone else made it down for breakfast, three days of maps and correspondence spread across it in an order only she seemed to understand.
"Sit," she said, not looking up. "All of you. This will take a while, and I'd rather say it once."
Vane took the chair across from her. Ashe dropped into the one beside him, still in her training clothes, a fresh bruise darkening along her collarbone from whatever she'd been working through alone in Ryuken's yard that morning. Valerica arrived a moment later with tea she hadn't finished, and Isole slid in last, already reading the map upside down before she'd properly sat.
Mara came in without being called and took the seat closest to the door, ledger open on her knee before anyone had said a word.
Ryuken stood near the window. Varian leaned against the wall by the hearth, arms folded, saying nothing yet.
