( That makes sense—it'd be akin to her librarians going behind her back and making a pact to skip work... well, she'd only fussed a little at them and set Roland onto cleaning duty, not completely eviscerated them or anything like that. Still... )

...I can't say I don't see where they're coming from, since it's something that should've been cleared with the emperor first, ( she figures that must be the boss, anyway, like the Head ) but his heart seems to have been in the right place.

( Saving the place you were born in. She has little loyalty to where she was born, the City or that laboratory otherwise, but that isn't to say she can't see why people might want to... if their homes are better than the one she experienced. )

Did they kill him?