Devoted in Death

She's nearly finished, eating and briefing, when the trio came back, chattering like...

• What are those birds in Ireland?
• We have more than one variety.
• The ones in the saying.
• Cuckoos?
• No, but that would fit. The one is for something and anothet's for something else.
• I wonder how it is I know what you're talking about. Magpies.
• That's it.

- Carmichael. She and Santiago can get started.

• Eve, it's still shy of five in the morning here.
• Why?
• Well, the magic elephant who carries the wide dish of the planet on its massive back moves pondeously on its daily trek around the sun.

Trust, she realized. Not just attraction, not just passion, not just a mutual goal. There had to be trust to work as a team.

You know what it is to love someone, to know them, because to really love, all the way in, you have to know.