“You look awful,” Moran told her.
“Clearly you’ve been avoiding mirrors yourself,” Bellusdeo told Moran.
“I spent an hour with Margot,” Kaylin said, by way of explanation.
Moran grimaced. “I’m surprised you both survived it. You did both survive it, right?”
“Let’s head home.”
* * *
Helen was waiting for them at the door. Teela and Tain were pulling an extra duty shift guarding the holding cell, but Severn chose to join her for dinner. They had been more or less gloomily silent as they walked through the city streets.
Helen stood aside to let everyone enter. “There’s a message for you,” she told Kaylin.
“A message?”
“I’m not sure what you call information delivered by mirror network.”
“Who sent it?”
“Not the Foundling Halls and not the midwives,” Helen assured her. “The message is currently in containment.”
“Containment.”
“I told you, dear. The mirror network is not secure. I am not about to add information to my personal Records without first ascertaining the contents are not malicious or harmful.”
“Who does itsayit’s from?”
“Pardon?”
“You let the messages from the Foundling Halls and the midwives’ guild through now.”
Helen nodded.
“You let Marcus through to shout at me.”
“He wasn’t shouting, dear. That’s the normal volume of a Leontine voice.”
“And you always let Teela through.”
“Ah. I see what you are trying to say. I cannot tell you who the message is from because I do not know the sender. I believe you do.”
Kaylin exhaled. “Margot?”
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“Margot. You don’t trust her. You don’t like her. You certainly disapprove of her choice of career.”
Since all of this was true, Kaylin held her peace. Defending Margot’s intentions while in her own home was not high on her list of life goals. Margot was a petty thief and a self-important annoyance, but there were things Margot wouldn’t do for money, one of which involved murder.
And Margot donated money to the Foundling Hall, and didn’t make a big, public deal out of it, the way she did with almost everything else. One of these days, Kaylin was going to have to admit that she was not an evil villain.
“Did you examine the message?”
“Of course.”
“So you know what it contains?”
