"Emperor's blood." Only when Gideon says it does Palamedes realize that he had been afraid to ask. Cam is alive. A little more of the tension goes out of him. "Camilla is also too stubborn to die," he adds wryly. Particularly, he thinks, when she has something so important to do. She would stop at nothing to bring him back; she certainly wouldn't let herself do something silly like die and leave their work unfinished.