Kalam’s an assassin who just might be good enough to get to Laseen. But if he doesn’t, there’s another one who just might still have in her the skills of a god – but not any old god, no, the Patron of Assassins, the one you call the Rope. So you keep prodding her – you’re taking her home because she isn’t what she once was, but the truth is, you want the old one back.’
