Her eyes closed as she scratched ineffectually at her forehead hopping to scratch the aching mass she had lodged back behind her eyes. "All those months ago, Daddy said that he suspected this has been going on for a very long time. Has this all been you and our departed relative? What made Uncle-dear so frustrated and desperate to end this game that he made such an amateurish mistake as to dispatch Alexios from his own shoulder to come kill me. I can't delude myself and think that for a second he sent Alexios after Samson. Alexios just ... Alexios 'must have' just taken the initiative, being the blunt instrument that he is ... or 'was', to go after Samson and solve that personal grudge. He was arrogant enough to assume he could blow through Samson and come straight to me and finish t
