Maeve went round all four of them anyway, checking, which was pointless and which she did every single time, because the System restoring somebody was not the same thing as her seeing it. Finn had both axes off his back and was going down the edges with his thumb. James drew Durendal a hand's width and looked at the steel, and it looked the way it always looked, which after the day it had was faintly insulting.
Then the notice came.
[THE BROKEN CROWN WILL CONTINUE]
[FLOOR 25 — FINAL FLOOR AVAILABLE]
[PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: KILL PRINCE BALDWIN]
[RETURN TO EARTH IN 60 SECONDS]
"Right," Cillian said. "So the field's about four kilometres across, Baldwin's somewhere in the middle of—"
"No," Maeve said.
"I'm only—"
