Chapter 597
ARIA
"The councillor's daughter," Ivory said.
"DO NOT," Jordan said.
"I'm just—"
"DO NOT SAY THE THING ABOUT THE COUNCILLOR'S DAUGHTER."
"I was going to say the methodology was similar in principle—"
"IT WAS NOT SIMILAR IN PRINCIPLE," Jordan said.
"Elite," Nina said. "The blackberry incident."
"We are not discussing the blackberry incident," Jordan said, at a volume that was attempting finality.
"What's the blackberry incident," I said.
"NOTHING," Jordan said.
"It was something," Kael said.
"It was several things," Ivory said.
"It was a significant number of things," Nina confirmed.
"I will leave this pack," Jordan said. "I will walk out of Shadowmere. I will become a rogue. I will live in the eastern territories."
"You won't," Kael said.
"I might," Jordan said.
"You'd miss Nina," Ivory said.
"I'd take Nina," Jordan said.
"Nina wouldn't go," Ivory said.
"Nina would absolutely go," Nina said.
"See," Jordan said.
"But not because of the blackberry incident," Nina said. "We're going to tell them about the blackberry incident."
"NINA."
"Killian asked," Nina said.
"I didn't ask," Killian said.
"You were going to," Nina said.
"I was considering it," Killian allowed.
"The blackberry incident," Jordan said, with the resignation of a man who'd realized the conversation had already happened and he was simply the last to accept it, "is not something that needs to be in the pack's collective knowledge base."
"It's already in the link," Edna said, from wherever Edna was.
"IT IS NOT IN THE LINK," Jordan said.
*It might be a little bit in the link,* Edna said.
"HOW," Jordan said.
*Someone was remembering it,* Edna said. *Memories can bleed. The link is new and people haven't learned to manage it yet.*
"Whose memories," Jordan said.
Silence.
"Whose memories were they," Jordan said.
*It's hard to say,* Edna said. *They were quite vivid. Whoever was remembering it remembers it very specifically.*
Every member of the inner circle was looking at every other member of the inner circle.
"I wasn't thinking about it," Kael said.
"I wasn't thinking about it," Nina said.
"I may have been," Ivory said.
"IVORY," Jordan said.
"I was cataloguing the methodology for a research note," she said. "It was professional memory retrieval."



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