Serpent & Dove

Lou and Reid report the incident with Grue and Andre to the constabulary. As they return to the Tower, Lou decides to show Reid her old home at Soleil et Lune. He hesitates, thinking it illegal. She threatens to strip naked, and he tells her to go ahead. She notices people watching and doesn’t do it, causing him to laugh. Cajoling him into trespassing and overcoming his fear of heights, Lou gets Reid into her attic room. She tells him that this is the first place she ever felt safe. He tries to get her to tell him what happened two years ago, but she won’t. He asks her what she’s hiding, and she tells him that she grew up away from Cesarine, near Amandine, and that she and her mother don’t speak. She also says that she never knew her father. He asks about the scar at her throat, and she admits her mother did it and that she became a thief to escape her. He says, “[I]t must be one hell of a story” (333-34). Lou teases him for cursing.