"They were not to blame," she says heavily. "They were with Gideon searching for Protosilaus the Seventh."
"I knew they would not find him, obviously. Yet I thought a confrontation with Septimus and perhaps Palamedes was imminent. I thought they would be safer elsewhere."
"They were not," she concludes, with a near-hysterical edge.
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Date: 2020-09-04 08:57 pm (UTC)"I knew they would not find him, obviously. Yet I thought a confrontation with Septimus and perhaps Palamedes was imminent. I thought they would be safer elsewhere."
"They were not," she concludes, with a near-hysterical edge.