Hector met Paris at the harbor.
Lysander knew this because Fylon mentioned it in the morning briefing — not as intelligence, as a fact of the day's harbor schedule. *The ship from the eastern passage arrived at the first hour. Hector was at the dock.*
He had asked Hector to speak with Paris first and Hector had done so. He did not know what they had said to each other. He would find out some of it later and the rest he would understand from how Paris spoke when he arrived.
Paris came to the supply office in the late afternoon.
He came alone — not with the two attendants he sometimes brought to formal palace spaces, not with the purposeful efficiency of a man arriving to deliver a report. He came the way he had come to the training ground before his first departure: because he knew where Lysander was and had decided that was the right place for the conversation.
He sat in the chair across the table.
He looked older.
