Randolph had never met Jo, Sam’s foster-sibling and the most talented soothsayer England had produced in a century, but he’d heard a fair bit, including that Jo, like many of the greatest seers, was neither man nor woman in the conventional sense, and should be referred to as “they”. Jo had left Britain before the War, disappearing to an undisclosed location abroad rather than permit their prophetic powers to be used as a military weapon. They had never returned, for fear of detention; Sam couldn’t visit them in case he was followed; even letters had to go through a complex poste restante
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