When he came back to the others, James saw it on him at once.
Team Zero had a shared room at the Bureau-approved residence now, and all five of them were in it — James checking a strap on his gear, Maeve with her circlet in her lap, Ronan and Cillian on the far couch with a floor map open between them. Finn came in with his face shut like a door.
James clocked it and did not ask.
Maeve looked up, read the same thing in two seconds, and went back to her circlet without a word.
Finn dropped into a chair and sat forward with his elbows on his knees.
"We're clearing Floor 17," he said. "Soon."
James understood the whole of it from those four words. They had two weeks. The country was busy deciding out loud that Team Zero did not belong in the Floor 20 raid. The simplest answer to that was to make the argument harder to say out loud.
"Soon," James agreed.
