" The thing is, there’s a big patch of blood on the grass where we got Mikey out.’ ‘Then we need a number of serious casualties to account for all the blood.’ ‘And you will have them. Step forward, Mr Bashford.’ I said, ‘Tim …?’ ‘And Mr Swanson, sir, if you would be so good.’ ‘Tim, don’t tell me what you’re going to do.’ ‘Wasn’t going to,’ he said cheerfully. ‘Talk to you later. "

― Jodi Taylor , An Argumentation of Historians (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #9)