“The reason I’ve been meaning to talk to you about this is that Griff’s not just passing me information. I’m helping him plan something there, too.” She seems stiff saying it, as if telling me makes her nervous. Even though, as far as I can tell, it would be the obvious strategy. “An uprising?” Annie nods. She closes her eyes and presses her thumb between them. “We were thinking of using drachthanasia.” Suddenly I understand her reticence. Annie’s planning another Widowing. The kind of uprising where you render your rulers helpless and then massacre them. The obvious strategy.
