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Once the gift of speech comes back to me, I say, “I think a better question is, what are you doing here?”
“I’m being vetted for an Ambassadorship.” Bill closes the book he was leafing through. “What about you?”
“I guess I am too. Only it’s complicated.”
He looks at me the way he always does at meetings when I reveal information slowly for drama. His body language is telling me, Get on with it already.
I look at him, wondering if this man I’ve known and respected for so long could be the Super Pusher. Could he be the person Mimir tried to warn me about? I find this very hard to believe. Firstly, if I am that bad at judging someone’s character, I might as well suspect every Guide close to me. Secondly, how could Mimir know Bill is here, which he would’ve had to know if Bill is the on
