Recognition

"What will it feel like?" I said.

"Like something you have been building toward for nine months is beginning," she said. "Not a surprise. More like — recognition."

I thought about that.

"Like the double confirmation," I said.

Abiola considered. "Similar mechanism," she said. "The bloodline communicates through recognition rather than announcement. Yes. Like that."

"All right," I said.

She ran thro