As if to make her night complete, she ran into Verchiel just inside the Executioner block.

"Good evening," he said cheerfully.

"I thought you were gone," Griselda snapped. After Philip, she didn't have the patience for this.

"I'm back. I hope Valerie didn't cause you any undue stress in my absence." He batted his eyes innocently.

"If you mean your stupid human, then no, she's been too busy in someone else's bed to bother Sergei. Probably ...