"The Underlord's people are here?" She won't go willingly after all, feels a tiny, furious animal wake in her chest, claw and fight and shriek until she's sure it will tear a hole in her body and run away on its own.

He turns and only then does she see the unconscious form of the large woman collapsed in the hall outside her door. She gapes as Bo tugs on her.

"I told you I wouldn't give up on you," he says. "Turns out I'm a bigger fool than you are. Now, if you want to ...