The master—I mean the Professor, Morian Zenas—is gone. So is Lady Alfidia, though I always addressed her as Doctor Lupus. So, for that matter, is the Telvanni, but he, at least, will not be missed—nasty mer, always making caustic comments about "the scaleskin help" whenever the Professor wasn't around. No, I am glad the Telvanni is gone. But the others … well. (What? What's that? …It is as if I heard my lady whisper in my ear, "How pretentious, Seif-ij!")