"That is reassuring to hear," Siebren replies, picking at the hem of his shirt to occupy his hands. "I am glad there has been no more trouble than that."

His anomalies. Drelasa isn't wrong to phrase it that way, but the implication of ownership has always sat with him uneasily.

"Has the 'metamorphosis' you describe had any additional effects? Do you believe that the access to my history has been improved by that, ah, demonic status? Excluding the current fault, of course."