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Jane Dougherty's avatar

I can see trouble coming...

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Marian L Thorpe's avatar

Things are, indeed, about to change.

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Jane Dougherty's avatar

I wish we knew of more trustworthy officials. Apart from her father, who isn’t going to be around for long, I fear, she’s vulnerable. And so is that testament. I don’t suppose she’s be able to gather her own supporters to form a sort of bodyguard. It would look as though she was suspicious of the old guard.

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Marian L Thorpe's avatar

Quintus is playing a long game, one that is hinted at (barely) in this book. I won’t say more except that Eudekia is a character in all the following books, although not a POV character.

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Jane Dougherty's avatar

I’d like to know that he has enemies. But it’s inevitable. We’ll just have to wait and see how long it takes for them to pluck up the courage…

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Marian L Thorpe's avatar

‘“The sins of the fathers are visited upon the children" in this case…some twenty years later. Can you guess at whose hand?

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Jane Dougherty's avatar

I can’t. I’m terrible at working out plots and culprits. My idea would be that Philitos had a son with another woman long before he knew Eudekia and the son is going to erupt on the scene and murder Alekos just as soon as he can.

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