He waited for something else, and yet, Labyrinth said nothing, nodding quietly, and turning away, leaving Seymour alone with the guards as they filed out of the ransacked house.
* * * *
When Eirian had announced to their mother that they were going to Sarah Ann Island, they had not expected that the end result of that action would mean they would be breaking into the headquarters of the Firmament Foundation and creeping through a corridor in the company of a girl they hardly knew, their father’s magcat trailing along behind them.
Speaking to their mother in the first days of March, explaining that this was important to them, that they needed to see the place their father had lived out his last days, they had no way to imagine that this was how things would be.