Eli told Tessa while she was waiting for the vehicle officer to call back.
He had chosen the interval because it was short. Even as he asked her to step into the empty stores passage, he knew what that meant: he wanted a place where the next urgent task might end her anger before he had to remain inside it.
She came with the transport sheet in her hand.
“What changed?”
“What I told you about Nara wasn’t complete.”
Her eyes lifted from the page.
“She said, ‘Stop Mira from flooding the districts.’ She pointed to the dam on the map. I repeated what I understood, and she confirmed it.”
The passage held the sound of a trolley moving in the next room. Tessa did not speak until it had passed.
