Priva had been talking for eleven minutes without stopping.
Neva stood in front of the mirror in the EMBER Studio upper apartment and listened while Priva moved behind her, straightening things that did not need straightening, talking at the speed she always hit when something was making her nervous and she had decided that talking would help.
"The backstory is solid — Paris pack, seven years active, founded Ember eighteen months ago technically though the formal registration was recent, which is accurate and deniable, and the Vault has the supporting documents so if anyone checks they'll find everything in order. The names are right. The timeline is right. If anyone asks about before Paris the answer is Lyon, if anyone asks about Lyon the answer is that you were independent for two year
