"It's... complicated," says Gideon. She's telling Maeve a story in a vaguely linear fashion and she doesn't know if she's ready to spill what she'd finally figured out about the Lyctoral process. "For Harrow, it meant a chance to renew the Ninth to former glories. There's...not a lot that she cares about more than that." She rubs the end of her nose. "Do you want to skip to the end or do you want to hear what happened next? I was, you know...in it, so it's difficult for me to have perspective here."