Her reaction is puzzling—but then, Gideon’s relationship to the Ninth House has always been fraught. Palamedes is still too shaken to analyze it further.

“Fuck.” He laughs, sounding a little hysterical, and clasps her outstretched hand. It’s been an awfully gloomy couple of days, and he looks at her like she’s sunshine finally breaking up the fog. “You are the very last person I expected to see in a pre-Resurrection pocket universe."