The X-Project

Romany and I have talked it over, and she's going to want some pretty bloody good answers. As she put it: never mind that they were stupid enough to allow a child to be stolen, but they compounded the error by giving her up for lost, and not fucking moving heaven and earth to find her again, because this is all before Rack went into hiding, after bloody all. But she's not about to make anyone's life hell just yet.

But the answers are going to have to be bloody good, because whenh you get right down to it, Romany and I have spend the last year (and more in her case) making sure Amanda gets to make her own choices and generally cleaning up them mess caused because they were careless enough to let Amanda get stolen and go through the hell she did. Because they didn't do the job right, Romany and I have had to take steps to make sure that any scumbag from the magical community that wants a piece of Amanda will probably try and kill the pair of us first. That's going to need to be one hell of an excuse.

I'm sure you've got some idea how we feel.

Speaking just for myself, though: Amanda chooses her own family, and I'm damn sure no-one's going to stop her doing that.