She trusted Peri’s judgment, especially concerning anything that might jeopardize their missions or their lives. And it wasn’t like Peri had to tell her everything. She was just used to thinking of it as her precocious sibling, even though Peri had been the equivalent of a human adult for a while now. And if you considered the way that Peri experienced time, it had had a lot longer to be an adult than Iris had.

