She holds up the note Ciri wrote her. "This isn't the language of the Empire; it isn't the language Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian write, either. So whatever you said was magically translated twice."
She squeezes her hands closed. "Four people died in Canaan House, two sets of two. The second one who died was a woman both times. Gideon wept for both of them. Is there something significant about Abigail Pent or Jeannemary Chattur's death? But neither of them has been buried."
She shoves back her hood; her scalp gleams, and although her face is still obscured by the makeup, it's suddenly clear that she's very young. "Something is going to happen--something, sometime, to someone. It's untenable. What use is it?"
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She squeezes her hands closed. "Four people died in Canaan House, two sets of two. The second one who died was a woman both times. Gideon wept for both of them. Is there something significant about Abigail Pent or Jeannemary Chattur's death? But neither of them has been buried."
She shoves back her hood; her scalp gleams, and although her face is still obscured by the makeup, it's suddenly clear that she's very young. "Something is going to happen--something, sometime, to someone. It's untenable. What use is it?"