The Covenant came back three days later with a modified proposal that was basically the same thing with prettier words, and honestly I was getting really tired of supernatural factions thinking they could negotiate access to my daughter.
"Observation only." The lead representative—her name was Vera apparently, I'd bothered to ask this time—emphasized like that made it better. "No physical contact. No testing. Just monitoring her development from a distance. We'd provide monthly reports on dimensional stability in exchange."
Monthly reports on dimensional stability in exchange for watching my daughter grow up. That was—
"Still no." I didn't even let her finish the pitch. "Hope is not part of any negotiation. If you want alliance based on dimensional monitoring, we discuss that separately. But she's completely off the table."
