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Sarelle finds her in the hallway.
"May I speak with you privately?"
"May I speak with you privately?"
Sarelle follows her there, and shuts the door, and listens for a moment.
Then she says, "I would like you to tell me if you know what used to break Loel's bones. I don't need the information itself, only to know if you have it."
Then she says, "I would like you to tell me if you know what used to break Loel's bones. I don't need the information itself, only to know if you have it."
"Does he know that you do, and has he expressed opinions about what you should do with the information?"
She nods thoughtfully.
Then she says, "You were friends with the vanished prince."
Then she says, "You were friends with the vanished prince."
"Yes," she says, quite as though Kiri had responded verbally. "That is what I thought."
"I have recently concluded that the vanished prince must have had a good reason to vanish," she says. "I prefer not to share this conclusion with anyone who does not already know it."
She nods.
"That is all," she says, and departs.
"That is all," she says, and departs.
Loel is in his rooms. He opens the door when she knocks.
"G'morning."
"G'morning."
"Sure." He steps back from the door to let her through.
Kiri comes in, shuts the door, gets a ways into the room, checks for open windows, and when she's satisfied that the room is reasonably secure, says:
"Sarelle visited me just now and asked if I know why you broke those bones - and when I said yes, she wanted to know if you knew I knew, and if you'd registered an opinion on what to do with the information - and I again said yes, and then she said, 'You were friends with the vanished prince'. And then I didn't say anything much and she said that she's concluded the vanished prince must have had good reason to vanish and that she didn't wish to share that with anyone who didn't already know it."
"Sarelle visited me just now and asked if I know why you broke those bones - and when I said yes, she wanted to know if you knew I knew, and if you'd registered an opinion on what to do with the information - and I again said yes, and then she said, 'You were friends with the vanished prince'. And then I didn't say anything much and she said that she's concluded the vanished prince must have had good reason to vanish and that she didn't wish to share that with anyone who didn't already know it."
"Where did she pull it from?" he wonders. "I never met her before."
"Okay. Fine. At least she said she's not gonna go talking to people about it. And she doesn't know who used to break my bones. Does she? There's no reasonable way she could know that, right?"
"There's a difference between a decent guess and knowing." He sighs. "But I should probably go chase down Ekador and ask him not to go talking about my skeleton, just in case anybody else ever starts guessing. That is a rumour I don't want to let get even a little bit started."
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