The Right Moment

Nobody spoke for a long moment.

The farm table. The seven of them. The western territory night outside the window.

Lenora looked at Sasha.

"Tell me," she said.

Sasha held her gaze.

"Ophelia found out two months before she died," said Sasha. "She had been trying to understand what had gone wrong with Nikolai. How the consequences had been so perfectly timed. How his enemies had known exactly when t