here's the stage

Of course. Why would a study full of writing have a name. They were truthfully expecting to find flowery letters of lament to her lover--whose name the Knight also doesn't know, a fact that only comes into sharp focus at this precise moment. No, that would be too easy. For all they know, those are just that, but not in Hallownest's writing. They've read more romances than only Bretta's. A foreign language would work well as code between a Great Knight and a Mantis, traitor's child or no.

They dip their head and step aside. Yes, perhaps elsewhere, and Lemm can again lead them where elsewhere he'd like to go.