Reines smiles, all calm and poise. Her favourite place for people to be is in her debt because it is something that can be dangled over one's head for months or years or decades if she feels like it.

"I will not make it a very large one," she says cheerfully. And she does mean it, she can imagine that Guenièvre isn't the kind of person who'd appreciate something beyond being called in for something simple and straight forward.