“I’m going to do everything I can to keep these people alive. I’m going to compromise and bend and be adulterated and impure and imperfect. And there’s going to be a time not too long from now that I’m really going to wish you were here. Just like I’m really going to wish Alejandro was.” Filip was silent, but she nodded like he’d spoken. “That’s the mystery, and that was your clue,” she said, stepping back. “Try to figure it out.”
