"Excellent!" Jace said, all smiles now that everything has been sorted to his satisfaction. Chandra was also happy with the outcome, cheering and making enough noise for all four of them.

Which was good, since neither Gideon nor Nissa were particularly happy about Liliana's inclusion and were not pretending otherwise.

"So, we're using these rooms as our headquarters," Jace continued. "Everybody's been given their own personal suites, just speak to my assistant Lavinia and she'll assign you somewhere. She knows what we are and what we're doing, so you won't have to worry about hiding it from her. And--"

"Oh, no thank you, darling."

"Huh? What?" Jace stopped, looking almost comedically confused. "No thank me for what?"