Hm, yes. Although even describing them as colleagues is a stretch.

[A brief pause.]

Familiar enemies, perhaps. I'm pleased to hear about Peter Lukas. And the thing that took Sasha.

[Her voice is cool, too, on that. She had liked Sasha, in the distantly approving way she'd allowed herself with most of the staff. The woman would have made a good Archivist.

She'd certainly deserved better than being unmade a year into her tenure as an assistant.]