“There are people in the kingdom who are truthseekers,” he finally said. “Not many people, but a few. People like Teddy and Tilda and Bren—people whose families were in the resistance and who place the highest value on knowing the truth of things. Leck is dead now, but there’s still so much truth to uncover. That’s their business, you understand, Sparks? They’re trying to help people figure out what happened, sometimes reassemble memories. Return what Leck stole, and, when they can, undo what Leck did, through thievery, through education—however they can.”
