Alice worked on high-definition photographs of manuscripts whilst at home, meaning that our confinement in a safe house didn’t affect her work. As for me, I passed the time trying to conceive a scheme to deal with the Brotherhood. Aware that the next new moon was only five weeks away and that I’d had no contact with the strategic forces that would be required to prevent the onset of catastrophe, I thrashed around for a solution.
Frustration at being penned inside a property probably less than twenty miles from home, combined with anxiety, left me more introspective than usual. In a deeply reflective moment, I questioned my abilities. Everyone else rated them so highly but I felt inadequate in the face of the task awaiting us. Why should it be so?
I thought about the limitations holding m
