‘The Hermes Society,’ Griffin said promptly. ‘Just Hermes, if you like.’ ‘The Hermes Society.’ Robin turned that name over in his mouth. ‘Why—’ ‘It’s a joke. Silver and mercury, Mercury and Hermes, Hermes and hermeneutics. I don’t know who came up with it.’ ‘And you’re a clandestine society? No one knows about you?’ ‘Certainly Babel does. We’ve had a – well, it’s been quite back and forth, shall we say? But they don’t know much, and certainly not as much as they’d like to. We’re very good at staying in the shadows.’ Not that good, Robin thought, thinking of curses in the dark, silver scattered
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