[She wrinkles her nose up at the idea of him - really, any necromancer except maybe Abigail Pent - wearing yellow. She's not even a goth, she wears white and purple and pink, but dear god.

Still, there's more important things to discuss. She raises her eyebrows in a muted expression of surprise and interest. She knows that somehow Palamedes managed to survive the explosion, and that somehow he managed to live on in Camilla's body. The River however, is something new.]

Nobody told me, no. Your survival was a fun little surprise to me. You were living away from the Empire, on one of the Blood of Eden planets.

How did you survive the River?