GRIPS BIGBY DELIGHTEDLY, I am so happy to have him along. He's on team "instantly get hugged" because Illarion will have missed him SO MUCH.

Also weeps a little because in better times Bigby and Preservation would absolute have gotten along as pals, gentlemen and scholars that they are (and Illarion will write that in his letter, for extra irony!!). Gentlemen and scholars...who went a little too far...and paid the Price... That's gonna be a brutal fight.