"Seditious meetings. Intelligence leaks. That sort of thing."
That sort of thing? Neville thought, How could you call such a serious thing so lightly like that?
Neville took a deep breath and whispered sarcastically, "So Colonel Vane is here to make sure your meet up with friends isn't secretly a coup planning session?"
The corner of Grayson's mouth twitched. "Something like that."
Neville pursed his lips and seriously said, "And you didn't think to mention this before inviting me?"
"Would you refuse to go?"
Yes, absolutely yes. Is what he wanted to say. I would have found seventeen different excuses to stay home, and god knows what rather than walk into a viper's nest of high-society military people. 'Cause that shit is crazy!
But Grayson was looking at him with that puppy-like expression. The Pearl Harmony Bracelet also didn't fail to make its presence known to him and glinted faintly at his wrist, reminding him of his quest.
