“You knew?”
“I learned later.”
“How much later?”
No answer.
Adrian’s anger sharpened.
“You left us chasing ghosts for eight years while you hid?”
“I was trying to keep Maya and Lucas alive.”
“By putting them on this plane?”
“I didn’t.”
Maya stared at the radio.
“What does that mean?”
Ethan hesitated.
“I wasn’t the one who arranged your ticket.”
Maya thought of the email.
A free upgrade.
Travel credit.
A last-minute seat change.
All seemingly ordinary.
“Who did?”
“I don’t know.”
Adrian glanced at her.
“He does.”
Ethan ignored him.
“Maya, listen carefully. The coordinates you’re flying toward belong to an abandoned installation called Raven Rock North.”
Adrian looked shocked.
“That place doesn’t exist.”
“It does.”
“What’s there?”
A pause.
“The original Icarus control center.”
Maya felt Lucas gripping her sleeve.
“Why is the plane going there?”
Ethan’s answer came quietly.
