Listening, Jon's expression falls between intent and grim. It's alarming, the tale she has to share. In so many ways.

Ambose's absense (But did Grigory's presence mean it was happening with his knowledge? Or was the apprentice an agent for the Queen?). The volunteer's death. The plain fact that something had been pulled from Relena and had destroyed the other man. The Queen's closing words.

And Oliver.

"'The future is bright,'" he repeats slowly, eyes fixed on hers. "That is precisely what he said."