Flight Risk

She leaned into the camera, a smirk cutting through the grain of the video feed. “Glad to see comprehension finally kicked in.”

The jab landed squarely against the heavy silence, but instead of shattering it, the tension seemed to bleed out of the room just a fraction.

Leo, who had been quietly observing, let out a sudden, involuntary snort—the sharp, clumsy sound of a teenager trying, and fail