The week had gotten the better of her in ways she wasn’t used to. Meetings—not the short kind that MLE-ers tended to gravitate towards. When it wasn’t meetings it was inspections and division updates. Evaluations. A matter down in the courtroom in the middle of the week that ate away her entire day in ways less desirable than tracking and taking down a dark wizard used to.

It’d been a slow week, a painful week.

It was almost over, though. Before the day could overcome her again, Alexa made a beeline for the atrium in search of her head of security. Didn’t take too long to spot him—which saved on a ton of time and she nodded a greeting as she approached.

“Got a new one for you, on a temporary basis.” He had new recruits already but this one wasn’t going through all the channels. “Burton’s back from medical leave. Ducked out before she could finish her YATI training so she’s finishing up with a ton more time on her hands than the other YATI will have. I’m assigning her to you for now.”

Might as well cut to the chase. There was no use pretending they weren’t both busy people.