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‘Oh, it would,’ I agreed. ‘And that would give, for example, the Hidden Ministry strong reason to keep it secret, wouldn’t you say?’
‘No wonder Val had a hard time digging anything up.’
The pup jumped up onto one of the chairs and lay down in a cloud of dust. I could almost swear that she winked at me. ‘The Greyer cottage. John Wester was a more powerful Waymaster even than we thought, Jay, for that cottage — it must have taken a jaunt back a few centuries, and quite recently.’
Jay eyed the sleepy pup with an air of dejection. ‘And Zareen nuked it.’
‘She is going to be gutted.’
‘But the Spire?’ Jay looked around at the room we were in, as though its décor might yield some manner of clue. ‘It seems dead to me.’
‘Long abandoned,’ I agreed. ‘Can you, I don’t know, sense the presence
