"That doesn't shock me. It's not like he made a snap decision, departing." Cosima, who has spent years in Riftwatch cultivating a reputation for patience, resists the urge to comment further on Flint's departure; Yseult has already heard most of what she is willing to say about it, and picking it apart further won't help anything. Still, she can't help the merest hint of an edge in her tone at first.

She lets it go, though, with a sigh, and adds: "I'm glad he handed off everything in good order, though. Replacing someone who doesn't know they're going is a different kind of mess. And," a little lighter, "you're not going to keep randomly finding really old notes from the guy two before you in a foreign language, I assume, which is a fun bonus puzzle when I don't remember there could be important things in them."