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The phone conversation with Jacen was brief, and had kept the lid on her brewing panic. A plan was coming together but, how late were they going to be? What resources did she pull? She's grown a lot since being pulled into this pack so many years ago and she usually had a good gut instinct but situations like this so made her want to shoot first and all questions later but she knew that would only make things worse.



Checking that Wren was still fast asleep, she slid her silenced phone into her pocket, checked her jacket for evening she needed and then slipped from her and her daughter's room to find Keadek.



When she did, as it often was early in the morning, she was already in the office with an espresso, more functional than anyone aught be at that hour.



We have a problem.



Giving her the most "cut to the chase" of the situation she could, she waited for a beat before adding.



With one enforcer gone and me going in, I don't know who else to take that doesn't put us in a vulnerable position. We need to get Lex out, and I have to think Jesse's there too, but we can't open ourselves up to do it. And there's going to be magic users, I don't want to open anyone to that unless I have to. But I don't know when Jacen will get back...