Hope's first consultation with the captured Fae operative happened in maximum security containment room surrounded by anti-dimensional barriers and three guards, which was—I mean she was four and a half negotiating with enemy combatant about apocalypse ritual and I was in observation room clawing my own hands trying not to panic.
"Why would you help me?" Hope's opening question was direct. Professional. "Eirlys is your leader. Unbinding ritual is your operation. You have no reason to explain how it works to the person who might counter it."
The operative—female Fae, mid-twenties appearance, named Lyra—studied Hope with expression I couldn't read through the observation glass.
