And now she’s in her office again, more alone than she has ever been. Alethia has left a dozen messages on their private channel, but Seshet doesn’t check them. Dee is shut down, silent as death. Jordan wasn’t even in the clerks’ office. She has no friends. Her life was the obelisk, and the obelisk is a lie. She has always known that, but she thought that its lie could be in the service of the greater good.
