There were other moving pieces in this Beck mess, so it was difficult for Felwinter to even know how to proceed, even with someone offering to help. You didn't have to do that. Faintly he heard Tony's words ring in his head, distant as though the recent memories of the waking world were farther than those of the past that were represented here in this room.

"If you have never known peace since the day you first found consciousness, wouldn't you seek a place of solitude?"

He watched her look around, but he himself eased back against the throne.