There’s a flash of wide grin, her blue eyes bright with shrewd amusement.

“Then I suppose we both know it’s too late for that.

“I do not have it in me to fear knowledge. I think that I would be the second side of your coin.” No, she knows she is, very certainly. “It is and always will be my life’s work to make sure knowledge is not hoarded, nor lost. Because that, to my people, is evil.

“So did you land in my path on purpose, or were you put here?”