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‘Setting aside for a moment the extreme improbability that Merlin ever existed in the first place,’ said Jay, ‘a fact which no one has any real evidence for, nothing but old stories—’
‘There’s lots of truth in old stories,’ I objected.
‘Yes, but also lots of nonsense, and a story isn’t evidence of anything.’
‘Fair enough.’
‘Setting that aside,’ he repeated. ‘Those stories go back, what, a thousand years at least? How could Merlin still be alive?’
‘Improbably powerful magician,’ I said.
‘And?’
‘You did see her breeze past our best security like it was nothing? And you can’t have forgotten Farringale, either. Baroness Tremayne? The echoes? It wouldn’t even be the first time we’ve encountered someone who absolutely shouldn’t still be alive anymore.’
‘True,’ said Jay, but sceptical
