Chapter 35 Velvet Collapses, Briefly
- The apartment in Berlin was quiet except for the war playing out on the screen.
- Isolde sat on the edge of a weathered chaise, her fingers wrapped tightly around a mug of untouched tea. Across the room, Penelope’s phone buzzed nonstop alerts, news outlets, encrypted messages flooding in.
- CNN. Al Jazeera. BILD. BBC.