"Abigail," she replies with a friendly nod. "And you got that right. I feel like they didn't really think any of this through." What to do with them after they'd summoned them here, at the very least. So many of them had been imprisoned without good cause and she knew others who would never return to help Thorne after that. Abigail only had herself because it was better than any of the alternatives.

She glances back at the book. "Just a general history of this world, I think. Makes sense to start with a broad picture."