Chapter 36. The Dose Table

June's POV

I told Ronan about Varne's words before we'd even reached the outpost gate.

Same day. Same hour.

He listened without interrupting, driving the second truck back toward the Reach, with me beside him in the cab and Hesper and Linnet asleep on blankets in the back.

"Rhett's been in the stables three days," he said finally.

"Yes."

"Bram knows he ran. Bram might guess he ran to us." He frowned. "But mucking stables. That's not a guess. That's a detail."

"Someone told him."

"Someone who's been inside our walls in the last three days, and outside them since." He let out a breath. "That's half my outpost. Scouts, traders, Ines's drivers, the boy who brings the milk from the lower farm."

"What do we do?"

"Tonight? Nothing." His jaw tightened. "The wagon night is the day