a word about what Gideon had done. “A blood flaw runs through the ruling House of the Seventh,” was all he said, “sparing most who carry the gene … but fatal to a few.” Harrowhark asked, “Teacher, was the Lady Septimus so diagnosed?” “Dulcinea Septimus was not meant to live to twenty-five,” said the little priest. “Come along, come along
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