[Had anyone even noticed her absence in that time? Or had her mother simply assumed that Caitlyn was holed up in her room while she went off to the council meeting? She knew that Silco had been offered everything in return for Jinx, but to the last moment, he'd denied that he would have given her up. At the very least he was a problem they wouldn't have to deal with any longer.

But at what cost? When he mentioned a workshop she was pulled out of her thoughts and nodded. It had been one of those weeks, all the threads she'd been following tangling and finally coming together, proof of everything she suspected, and now there was nothing to be done about it.]

That sounds about right for the two of you. Hopefully, you haven't blown anything up this time, or caused too much trouble. We're misfits enough as it is.