Chapter Twenty Five
Tracking down Limbane proved to be unexpectedly easy. Eva found him back in his reading room. He was reclining on a sofa when she walked in, wearing a soft pair of slippers and sipping the peculiar drink he liked so much. His obvious ease irritated her enormously, given the circumstances.
‘The job is done,’ he shrugged when she questioned him.
‘You mean the war is over?’
‘Not at all. But the constructs are gone.’
‘So you just left them to it?’
Limbane took a long drink before he answered. ‘We did everything that you asked, Lady Glostrum. In the process of which I lost five Lokants. Several more are in the infirmary, and I’m told that two of those will probably never walk again. I consider that a high cost for interfering in your wars.’
‘Insufferable,’ she spat ‘w
