A casual manner and an offer of food wasn't going to distract him. She'd known that it wouldn't. She looked at his face, her hand reaching up to scratch her ear, then falling.
"I'm afraid that if you know, Alistair, someone will make you a target." Katherine looked directly into his eyes. "Why have you stayed? Why not Scotland?" Xaviera had been in her thoughts these past few days. It was easy to look at the Acts as targeting only adults but strangely, Alistair's daughter was one of the few jokers she had ever interacted with.