At AMSO Headquarters
Lexa stood by the training observation deck, her arms loosely crossed as her eyes wandered, not at the recruits below, but toward the hallway where she'd last seen him.
Theo.
'Why was he here?'
She hadn't dared ask Marlon directly. It would raise too many questions, and she couldn't risk exposing the fact that she'd helped him escape that day. She had to keep pretending she didn't know anything.
Still… her mind wouldn't settle.
She remembered how he walked in earlier… calm, unreadable as ever. And how that Class 4 operative, Shine, had greeted him like an old friend, even throwing her arms around him.
Lexa frowned slightly at the memory. That girl was always overly familiar with people, but still - Theo looked different now. Sharper. More mature. And clearly, he wasn't just some random survivor sneaking into red zones anymore.
He'd been walking alongside Marlon Pitt. Supreme Commander of AMSO's Scientific Division. That alone said a lot.
