"He is already corresponding about threshold winnowers," Sasha points out. "And he told us that he had considered a terrible bargain, in exchange for life unending. I think he knows, and knows that we know. But if we are going to talk to him about Hellspin in any detail, I want Ione or the Rahal available, to read how he reacts. And I want to know how he responds to facts, not to hundreds of years' worth of dramatizations."