But Norris hesitated, dumbfounded gaze travelling from Rosalind to me to the audience that had just shouted at him so vehemently. His lips moved erratically without producing a single sound. ‘This is hardly the moment to start worrying about your re-election, Norris,’ Rosalind added impatiently. That broke the spell. ‘But … but we can’t …’ She scoffed. ‘We?’ ‘Well, I can’t just— We have no idea—’ ‘Is that a no?’ she cut in, voice so sharp that even I flinched on the other consul’s behalf. ‘Are you going to refuse to act?’ ‘Look, we’re talking about murderers,’ he sputtered with an incoherent
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