“Desperate people do desperate things,” said Spencer-Talbot. “Perhaps if we all did more to make things less… — Ben Aaronovitch

The trouble with turning a blind eye is that people often take the opportunity to punch you in the face.

“This is a terrible work,” I said. “Why did you do it?”

“The usual reasons,” said the Magister. “I told myself it was piety and duty to the Church, but a thousand years of contemplation will batter down the doors of one’s own delusions.”

None of those choices seemed likely, but if I’ve learned one thing on the job, it is that a coincidence can kill someone just as easily as malice.