"Oooooor maybe one of the Thorntons attacked Fabrice for revenge?" Alodia raises her eyebrows and fixes Moira with a skeptical look. "Or maybe whoever killed the Thornton girl went after Fabrice, or maybe it's totally unrelated and this town is just crazy dangerous sometimes, or maybe it's literally any other explanation that doesn't sound like some convoluted conspiracy theory. Because no offense, Moira, but 'she murdered her husband and brother years ago and covered it up, and now she's killed one of the Thorntons and attacked her own nephew to keep blame off her family' kind of sounds like a conspiracy theory."

At Moira's next words, her eyebrows go even higher and she shudders theatrically. "You were in a labyrinth? With Medusa? And James Thornton? Ye gods, I'm honestly not sure which one is worse."