The order got sorted the way most things in Class Z got sorted, which was badly, at night, with everyone too tired to argue.
Soren had said he was deciding it.
He hadn't decided anything yet.
He'd laid down to think about it and the thinking had turned into the bond-lines doing math behind his eyes, four of them, and one of the four was different now in a way the others weren't.
The cap had been wrong for a while.
He'd known it and done nothing about it.
He'd hit D-rank, the rank had registered, the board showed it, but the Obsession Index ceiling had never moved off 75 to match.
He'd checked it twice and let it ride, because Yara was pinned flat against 75 already and a higher ceiling only meant more room for the thing he was trying to keep level to climb.
It caught up to itself tonight.
[DING! — Obsession Index cap synchronized to tamer rank: 75 → 100.]
The number that had been stuck finally took the rank it was owed.
