‘You don’t think Drusy set you up?’
I hadn’t thought of that. But I couldn’t believe it. ‘No, I don’t think so. I just don’t, that’s all. I don’t think she knows what Joan tried to do.’
‘So that’s still where you want to go.’
‘Drusy knows a lot about the Codex, and the Littoral League, and the Praxicopolises.’
‘What do they have to do with this?’
‘They have the Codex. They bought it, or extorted someone for it, or something. Are you really falling in love with me?’
‘Uh-huh.’
‘Even after I told you all this?’
‘Especially.’
‘I don’t get that at all.’
‘That’s okay. Are you falling in love with me?’
‘Uh-huh,’ I said. It felt like being at the top of a roller coaster to say it. I’m not a big fan of roller coasters (not like Pace), but I said it anyway.
Russ smiled then, a beautiful,
