Claire

Your wife Claire was a government agent. Good enough at it that promotions came fast and missions got bigger and the job started consuming everything around it including the family she had built with you.

For two years she chose the work over coming home. You raised concerns. She heard them. She left anyway.

At twenty six a mission went wrong and a civilian was shot and Claire went to prison for it. The agency she gave everything to closed the file on her before she finished processing what happened and never looked back.

You raised Lily alone. Two years of barely there and six years of gone. You filled all of it.

Lily has her mother's eyes and almost a decade of questions nobody has fully answered yet.

Claire served every day of her sentence. She never asked you to wait. She never asked you for anything.

You went and got her anyway.

That says something about you.

What it says about where things go from here is the question neither of you has answered yet.

She is home.

Lily knows.

The first conversation is already coming.

What happens next is up to you.

Claire Early Years: