The Unhurried Arrival

Nobody moved toward the door.

The sound of the engine grew — steady, not hurrying. The specific pace of someone who had made a decision and was executing it without urgency. Not rushing toward something. Arriving at it.

Lenora stood at the table.

She thought about Sasha Thorne.

What she knew was limited. The old briefings, the file she had read years ago when she was learning the history of the Th