Three days.
Three days since they had obtained F7 and Raven had left the seventh space without looking back.
Three days of camp a hundred meters from the Silent Threshold while the team processed what had happened, while Emily worked on F7's corruption — which dropped more slowly than any other — while Seraph calculated the route back to Threshold Port.
Raven ate.
Not in the usual sense — in the sense that Raven, who normally took specific portions calculated to operate correctly, had been taking twice what she normally did for three days and looking at anyone who noticed with an expression that shut down any comment before it started.
Maya and Kira noticed on the first day.
They didn't say anything.
Kira because Kira filed things away and waited for the right moment to process them. Maya because Maya had seen Raven's hand on her stomach enough times to have a hypothesis she still didn't want to confirm aloud.
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[Day 71 — morning]
