17. This Is All Splinter
Mina
“I’d rather not do this alone, but if I have to, I’ll understand.”
I wasn’t sure if this was a serious offer, scribbled at the end of the note jammed through my window, or if Ben was doing that thing where people try to speed up other people’s decisions by illustrating the absurdity of the incorrect options. Either way, there was really only one answer, the one I scribbled and jammed back into the frame in case he came back to check.
“I’ll figure something out.”
If Ben was right about what he had heard, we were potentially looking at more usable information than I could get from years of standard surveillance. List corrections, more people to be effectively certain about, maybe even new details on the nature of Splinters—their plans, their weaknesses. I c
