Three days passed.They found a rhythm, the four of them — which surprised Nova more than almost anything else had. She had expected awkward. She had expected the boys to act out, the way children did with disruption, or for Jax to be stiff and uncertain with them in a way that made everyone uncomfortable.Instead, Ryder had essentially adopted him.It was a quiet, formal adoption — Ryder did everything quietly and formally — but it was complete. He brought Jax his important observations throughout the day, required Jax's opinion on matters of dinosaur taxonomy, and had begun explaining, at length, his system for ranking the clouds visible from the forty-second floor.Blake, meanwhile, had decided Jax was a piece of playground equipment. He climbed on him during breakfast. He ran at him full speed in hallways on the assumption that Jax would catch him, and Jax always did, and this had become a game with no rules and no end.Nova worked. She trained — the combat trainer Jax hired was a
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