There is no good reason for Lilia to do this and several why she quite straightforwardly cannot (how'd she get entrance granted into the Mansion? how did redacted and redacted get solved?) but nonetheless when Riudare turns to leave the dinner-table to come and find her she's already standing there. 

"This seems a self-imposed shortage of burglars," she says, "and not one Her Majesty'd have you solve by borrowing hers."



(Who is this woman? Of the people present:

Riudare knows. Faces are valuable in their line of business, and he wouldn't have failed to learn hers.

The Archduke Narikopolus knows. Sometimes her department has seized and tortured to death someone important enough he merits a courtesy notification; sometimes there is a complicated play he is expected not to interrupt.

Alexaera Cansellarion knows. She looks like her mother.)

There is no good reason for Lilia to do this and several why she quite straightforwardly cannot (how'd she get entrance granted into the Mansion? how did redacted and redacted get solved?) but nonetheless when Riudare turns to leave the dinner-table to come and find her she's already standing there. 

"This seems a self-imposed shortage of burglars," she says, "and not one Her Majesty'd have you solve by borrowing hers."



(Who is this woman? Of the people present:

Riudare knows. Faces are valuable in their line of business, and he wouldn't have failed to learn hers.

The Archduke Narikopolus knows. Sometimes her department has seized and tortured to death someone important enough he merits a courtesy notification; sometimes there is a complicated play he is expected not to interrupt.

Alexaera Cansellarion knows. She looks like her mother.)

As far as everyone else is concerned she is a rich powerful very very Lawful Evil wizard.