2026-10-12 00:01:02Allen did. She worked down the index, stopped, went back a line, then turned a cluster of pages together. Unlike the old clerk, she didn't fill the room with commentary while she searched. Her lips moved around a silent count before her finger stopped.
"Here."She rotated the ledger enough for Allen and Seraphina to read the entry without surrendering it across the table.Valemont Restricted Arsenal Annex.The line beneath carried a street entry and an anne
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119 | Property of Seraphina Valemont (II)
Allen did. She worked down the index, stopped, went back a line, then turned a cluster of pages together. Unlike the old clerk, she didn't fill the room with commentary while she searched. Her lips moved around a silent count before her finger stopped."Here."She rotated the ledger enough for Allen and Seraphina to read the entry without surrendering it across the table.Valemont Restricted Arsenal Annex.The line beneath carried a street entry and an annex door number. Allen read the street, the door, then went back over them.Seraphina leaned forward slightly. Her gaze fixed on the location before moving to the custody field beside it."That's current?" Allen asked."Current in this index," the registry clerk said. "It tells you where the record places the items. It doesn't tell you what's behind the door today.""Condition?""Not here.""Named custodian?"She shook her head. "Facil
118 | Property of Seraphina Valemont
Near noon the next day, the old records clerk looked up from a stack of tied folders and stared at Allen's chest.Her eyes stayed on the A-rank badge for a beat before moving to his face."Again?"Allen stopped Seraphina's wheelchair at the counter. "You make it sound personal.""You keep bringing me work." The clerk leaned sideways and looked at Seraphina. "And somehow he's getting shinier every time you come in."Seraphina tipped her chin toward Allen, amusement clear in her eyes.Allen shifted his grip on the wheelchair handles. A full breath no longer caught under his right ribs. The soreness remained somewhere deeper, but pushing the chair didn't wake it.The clerk pushed her spectacles higher. "Same arrangement?"Seraphina nodded."He reads with you?"Another nod."Good. I still need your mark."Allen slipped his right hand into his trouser pocket, brought out the wrappe
117 | To My Wife's Side (II)
> LUNAFROST> ECLIPTIC RAIMENT> MINE. RETURN THEM.Allen had never heard either name. He didn't interrupt her to ask. She was still writing.The lead representative's gaze fixed on the page before Seraphina finished the first line. It stayed there through the last.The final stroke came down hard enough to leave charcoal dust beside the word THEM.Seraphina put the stub on the table. Using her right hand, she raised the page. Before she turned it toward the 2 men, her eyes found Allen's. She answered him with a short nod.Allen moved a small step closer to her chair and let her present the page herself.The lead representative read it.The second representative leaned just enough to see over the edge. His eyes stopped on MINE. His mouth opened, then closed.Neither man answered immediately. Then the lead representative's jaw shifted."Those items are under House control. You do not decide what
116 | To My Wife's Side
The lead Valemont man drew a breath. When he spoke again, his voice had returned to its careful House polish."Sir. I am acting here under House Valemont's authority. My duty is to see Lady Seraphina returned safely and settle this matter without further disorder."Allen held the lead man's gaze briefly, then shifted his attention to the man who had been beside Seraphina's wheelchair."Your man put his hand on her chair after she refused you."The lead man's mouth tightened. "He was attempting to assist Lady Seraphina when the discussion became unnecessarily difficult."Allen's gaze shifted to the second man. "Get away from her." He didn't raise his voice or touch Silverhowl. The second man looked at Allen instead of moving."I was clearing the chair from the table."His voice was rougher than the lead man's, defensive rather than polished.Allen glanced at the locked wheel beside Seraphina's foot. "She didn't a
115 | Six Hours Means Something (II)
Across the table, wood scraped softly as the other representative finished standing. His gaze moved from Allen to the space behind him.Allen shifted sideways.The line to Seraphina vanished behind his shoulder.The man's eyes came back.Better.The refusal page lay on the table beside the charcoal. From where Allen stood, he could see the heavy black shape Seraphina had left on it.He'd already heard the word from Maris.The wheelchair had jerked against locked brakes anyway.Allen's jaw tightened.His right hand wanted to close again. He flexed his fingers once and let them hang beside his thigh, well away from Silverhowl.Drawing would be easy. Crossing the small distance to the envoy in front of him would be easier still. Neither would help until Allen knew what the men intended to do next.Seraphina had answered these people herself. Allen had stayed away long enough to make sure
114 | Six Hours Means Something
Allen's next stride hit the open road.Violet spoke before he could take another.[Violet: Host. Direct physical threat to Wife detected.]Everything in him went still except his legs.Maris struck the follower link almost on top of the warning.'Boss. He pulled the chair. Brakes caught.'That was enough.Allen didn't ask Maris for another description. The words had already given him the part that mattered. The man beside Seraphina's chair had tried to pull it. The locked brakes had stopped him.Maris and Fendrel were already in the room. They could stop the Valemont men from getting farther into the house.They couldn't erase the streets between Allen and his wife.The street ahead ran clear to the next corner. Home was still beyond it, beyond stone and people and every ordinary second his body would need to cross the distance.Allen stopped running.His right ribs bit at the
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