"You shouldn't be here," Ezra said, for the third time in as many minutes, adjusting the collar of a jacket that made Lucien look considerably less like himself than either of them was entirely comfortable with.

"You said yourself you needed someone who could recognize Cole on sight if he showed."

"I said that before I fully thought through what showing you an active Echo auction actually means."

"I've made my decision, Ezra. We're not doing this the way you did things before, alone and hoping I never find out how much danger it put you in."

Ezra didn't have a response for that, mostly because it was true, and...