Brother Long came through the door of room 222 like a man who had assessed the situation incorrectly from the outside and was discovering the error in real time.He stopped when he saw the configuration of the room.Four bodyguards positioned with professional efficiency. Carter Webb on the sofa with the specific posture of someone whose authority has departed and left the structure of it behind. Kelvin in the chair across from him with the unhurried quality of someone who has chosen their seat carefully."That is your trump card," Kelvin said, looking at Brother Long with the calm interest of someone identifying a piece of information. "The delinquents outside."Brother Long looked at Carter Webb.Carter Webb looked at the floor.Brother Long had the expression of someone who has been given a significant piece of information without anyone having spoken."I am going to leave now," Kelvin said. "Carter Webb and I have finished our conversation." He looked at Brother Long directly. "Th

The reunion invitation had arrived in the least expected way — a woman named Sandra Kim appearing out of nowhere at the steak restaurant, delivering the information at speed before disappearing back into the city, leaving Kelvin standing with an invitation he had not sought and an event he had not considered attending.Sophie had been the first to form an opinion."Go," she said, over the remaining portion of her steak. "You should go.""I barely knew most of them," Kelvin said."That is exactly why you should go," Sophie said. "To see what happened to them.""Or to be seen," Anna said. She said it without judgment — just the observation."Both," Sophie said.Kelvin had thought about it for most of the following day, through the morning operations briefing with Frank and the afternoon Catherine Walsh call and the hour he spent with the RuiserChi registration documents that still felt like a claim he was making on something.He had decided to go in the specific way of someone who had d