“To tell the truth,” Silas said, “at some point I stopped thinking about bringing Priest in as a matter of the mission. A fanatic, twisted part of me just wanted to meet her. The girl who kept slipping from my grasp. The girl who laughed at a joke she told while passing classified information.” He paused. Swallowed. “You were right. There was no reality where finding Priest would have helped us get Orion back. I was trying to fool myself. Justify my own longing.”
