All that are concerned by this will be drawn to places that they would not wish to see; it lies in the nature of the woe they are dealing with. Milliways had never before truly needed a suicide watch, or had a Bound patron that was nigh beyond help.

"Do not press the subject of the blood-drinker when speaking with Javert; he is more than spooked from it all, and his soul is not whole. Sometimes, it may happen that the mere memory of a thing will plunge a man into darkness beyond his own help. Whatever happened, or happened not, he took it very badly while maintaining that it is all, in some way, his own fault."

Again, an offer of a wire brush might well be in order. Teja shrugs ruefully.

This must be spoken of.