It was just that sort of day, where the familiarity of how it just felt should have tipped Valentine right off the bat. In a subtle way, it probably did, since she wasn't at all surprised to fine the black car parked at the end of the driveway or the ban leaning against it, waiting for her, looking even a little fatter still from last time.

( 'Let's walk,' Graff said, and Valentine was already rerouting her course for the woods... )