It's nice to see Solomon actively pursuing that, instead of avoiding books wholesale, but Raine holds back any comment on that, only smiling faintly.

What happened is a different matter. Raine sighs quietly. "Nothing terrible," she says. "Erskine tried to get me into a boat in the canals, that's all. I didn't anticipate that as a problem when I took over the Guild." Somehow, it never crossed her mind, back then, that she'd be at risk of her friends attempting to get her to do theoretically fun things.