[Suddenly, the world goes dark, and then there's a woman's cry, and a hand catches Caleb in the throat at an angle that leaves him choking for a moment.]
Beauregard?
[It hadn't exactly sounded like her, but the hand had been - he thinks - too small to be Yasha's, far too large to be Veth's, and Jester would have almost certainly have made herself known immediately, in her utterly inimitable way.]
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Beauregard?
[It hadn't exactly sounded like her, but the hand had been - he thinks - too small to be Yasha's, far too large to be Veth's, and Jester would have almost certainly have made herself known immediately, in her utterly inimitable way.]