Harrow was correct: Gideon is exhausted in body and soul and she slept like the dead all through the night, curled next to and around her necromancer. She startles awake at Harrow's voice, and sits up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"...What? What? Something wrong?"

She blinks blearily in the general direction of the door. Harrow is up and dressed, which isn't unusual, and her face is painted, which, same, but there's something different about her this morning. Gideon squints.

"...is that a new skull?"