~LYRA'S POV~
I walked away from the door without answering it.
Not because I didn't hear the offer. I heard every word of it, delivered in a voice I'd come to associate with the man who had tried to have me killed, carrying information that the part of me I was trying to keep quiet wanted desperately to pursue. I heard it and I felt the pull of it and I turned around and walked back down the corridor because some things you didn't engage with regardless of what they offered, and I'd learned enough about the way manipulation worked to know that the first rule was not giving it a response to work with.
I found Eren in the strategy room, where he'd returned after the containment to document everything while the details were precise.
"Does the Dark Alpha actually know how to access the in-between?" I said. No preamble.
