“But Yves, will she know what’s happening to her? Won’t she be terrified? What if she gets hurt? How will she cope with a double life?”
Elspeth was asking too many questions and her no nonsense big sister tone demanded answers.
Questions that mirrored my fears.
I’d been ordered to find an agent and fix Earth. I’d found the woman and set to work, bouncing her from her everyday life to war zones, bouncing her from the safety of her family and friends to danger and fear, bouncing her back and forth and leaving her to puzzle it out on her own. And there wasn’t a damn thing I could do to make it easier for her.