"Watcher Council sounds bad - I wouldn't discount it. BLow them up, and they keep crawling back from who-knows-where. Secret Societies and all that, ugh!"

Asar-Suti shudders. What an awful world she comes from. The idea is inane, and the execution is cruel.

"Whoever is left must be desparate to get their hands on a Slayer and start out again," he adds. "I said I might be wrong, but keep it in mind, as a possibility. The 'one explanation that is impossible' often turns out to be the truth; the one with the most obvious alibi is the murderer while the one with the most obvious motives is innocent. Narrative causality; it applies to all of us here."