Ned and Hal meet again after a battle, in another London street.

Violet starts to see India the way India sees, and everything else falls out of focus.

Following a public display of unity, a private display of unity.

After— after. When Tang Fan is home, and safe, Sui Zhou sees to it that he is comfortable, then moves to take leave of his imposition.

Claudius picks just about the worst possible time to ship his nephew off to England. Hal benefits from the diversion.

Surely in a world so vast there lie yet stones unturned— slippery things smalled for his spindling fingers to unearth.

Cornelius Hickey robs graves. Wouldn't you?

An Erebite and a Terror confer over their grievances

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.

Hickey and Crozier are soulmates, and it's the worst thing ever.

A sabre is, by nature, forthright.