The companion novella to ARABELLA.

I always knew that it would come to this.

My mother warned me when I was younger that the shadows could only protect me for so long. "Sooner or later, even the darkness must give way to light," she'd told me.

But I'd always thought I'd have more time to figure it all out.

When it's time to run, you'll know.

And when you do, you shall see to it that you leave nothing behind.

You must know how to disappear if you want to survive.

You must know how to become the agent you were trained to be.