"I am trying to tie together everything I have learned in Canaan House to the places, individuals, and Houses relevant to each. With Palamedes Sextus' notes, I have six of eight theorems and a picture is beginning to emerge."

Without looking away from the tangle, she adds, "It is a valuable distraction from the fact that now that your farce has ended, the universe has cast me in the sequel." Chagrin is evident in her voice and in her profile.