‘Halbert!’ Rosalind snapped, eyes shooting back and forth between the spectators and me with disconcerting urgency. ‘This is not—’ ‘But it is relevant, esteemed colleague.’ Oh, the unholy glee in his eyes – I wondered if the war even mattered to him at all, if this wasn’t just a game between him and Rosalind to his mind. ‘It’s relevant to everyone in this room. We’ve all lost friends to that monster, haven’t we? We’ve lost family to that monster?’
