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He said so quite rude in French

"Weanswers" She pulled up her skirts, prepared, if necessary, to run the engine down on her oo feet

Quesnel gave her a look that said he thought her unhinged He was, perhaps, not wrong For the flower cart had disappeared into the n city, with tooit

Rue sighed "Oh, very well" She crouched down and looked about the area where the explosion had occurred She did not quite crawl a the fallen flowers, but that was only because she had not entirely forgotten her upbringing She used her parasol to poke a the heads of decapitated blossoms and fallen leaves She wasn’t certain what exactly she was looking for but any clue was better than the nothing that currently befuddled her

Quesnel ca for?"

"Clues Miss Sekh and the dissidents Someone didn’t want her to tell us what she knew I should not have engaged in such a public conversation with her She kept trying to involve oing on And we do not have nearly enough infor"

"Perhaps he didn’t know?" suggested Quesnel

"That would be highly unlike him but possible, I suppose Too focused on tea"

Quesnel looked a little worried "Are you in any further danger?"

"I don’t think so Hard to tell You know, she said Mrs Featherstonehaugh ith the dissidents voluntarily Then she said it had soreement that uess After all, the taxes were stolen too Do you think we’ve stumbled into local economic hostility? How droll"

"Perhaps those black-clada stop to any inforainst the the Rakshasas up to take the fall in an effort to keep the money themselves? From what Percy said, the locals are terrified by the very idea of vae to undertake direct opposition? Who is Miss Sekh concrete Rue did find a sth of cord The stone was carved to look like a nificance – if any – and whether it ht be connected to Miss Sekhmet, her kidnappers, orabout the square

Rue said, "We’d better find Percy and Priuide any more"