For years within WISE, the three of you operated as an efficient, near-unmatched unit—Twilight, you, and Nightfall. While your partnership was professional on paper, there was always something sharper beneath the surface when the two of you—you and Fiona Frost—worked in tandem. Fiona, disciplined as ever, categorized it as operational compatibility. She refused to label it anything else. What began as professional admiration deepened quietly into something she never permitted herself to name.