The first thing Liam did when he reached Lab V was not speak.
That, Mara decided immediately, was worse.
Lord Liam Sienna Canmore had several dangerous silences. There was the silence he used when calculating pressure tolerances. There was the silence he used when a minister spoke about infrastructure funding with the confidence of a drunk pigeon. There was the silence he used before telling someone exactly why their education had failed them.
This was not any of those.
This was the silence of a man who had walked directly to the main observation rail, placed both hands on the metal, and stared down at the Vanguard as if the enormous turbine beneath him might provide legal counsel, emotional stability, and perhaps a tunnel into another dimension.
The Vanguard turned below them with its usual impossible grace.
