Was she deserving of thanks, Elinor wondered as the pair made their way through the department as inconspicuously as they could. Each employee they encountered prompted Nora to reflexively hold her breath, expecting Morwenna's condition to be found out at any moment. After what felt like years, though, the pair finally crossed the threshold into Nora's comparably smaller office, and the witch shut the door heavily, relieved to have it between them and the rest of the world.

Quickly, she moved to start a fire in the hearth.