Pruce blinked, exchanged a look with an equally dumbfounded Ivee, then looked back to the queen. "I hadn't realized he'd gotten that too. I guess it shouldn't surprise me, if he was tangled up in this mess to begin with."
Then something from the potluck the day before came back to him, and he straightened, glancing past the queen to the firmly shut door, making sure it would stay that way for a second. "Although if I'm remembering right, he dismissed the other two pieces entirely yesterday. I'm going to take that to mean that all that should stay on the low-down."