"Thank you," she says, taking the book and moving to place it on a nearby rock, wrapped in her cloak.

"I'll read it, I promise. And more than just the once, besides. I like to think I'm a good student. It -- will be a shift in perspective, certainly. I hope I prove up to it."

It's hard to think like the people that might one day try to kill you. But since everyone of her acquaintance has been just such a person, except maybe Liranan and Morrigan -- well.

Here she is.