David hung back, letting Cody be the one to approach the woman sitting at the front desk, crowded out by a floral arrangement. The boy supplied the correct answers, had any number of important David documents on his person, ready for the woman’s perusal. Ms. Larkin is in the restaurant, she told David, Cody apparently already dismissed. And you can send him after me, Cody said, nodding at the security guard, if I’m not right back down. •Cody stayed at David’s side, his arm through David’s, helping him navigate the elevator, the hallways hung with heavy velvet curtains.