"Big bad goblin in a park, liked collecting ghosts."

"The goblin did that to you? Why were you fighting a goblin, no, I can guess—"

"No, one of its Other hangers-on, I think my face wouldn't be—here—if it'd been the Hyena."

She breathes. "Okay. You decided you had to fight a ghost-collecting goblin and you made it back out.

I could probably have helped, you know. If you were going to do it anyway."

"...you could've gotten hurt, though."

"Says the person who did. It would have been much less dangerous than doing it alone."

"I wasn't alone, the Shepherd and Matthew came with."

"Conquest's man and the Shepherd.

Okay, I see why you didn't tell me ahead of time."

"I originally asked Conquest for tips since he's been around for a while and should know more and he—kinda offered help. In the form of those two."

"And the fact that Conquest wanted you to succeed didn't make you rethink whether you should?"

"Not really. He's Conquest, he likes conquering, Sealing a bothersome Other is appropriately conquerful."

"But that just means it made him some little bit stronger, and you risked your life doing it!"

He purses his lips—

—then says, "My name's not Sam. It's Sadde."

She stops. Gets a confused look. "Okay? Oh. Sadde. Like the Seal I've apparently been mispronouncing all along."

He giggles. "Yeah, that one."

"So you're really committed to fighting dangerous Others, enough to be named after it, and the pseudonym is...not just because you're on the run from home, is it."

"I wasn't named after it."

"Coincidence, then?" She looks skeptical at that one.

"Absolutely not."

"That one you might have to explain."

"I made it. The original idea is—someone else's—but I'm the one who wrote it and its versions and have been pushing it."

"Congratulations, I guess. You must have been really successful really quickly.

I didn't know the Seal was new, but now that you mention it of course you would have let me assume the money hadn't changed if you weren't admitting to being the one who convinced Montreal to add it."

"...how new it is is complicated. It's been on the money since it was invented six decades ago, though. And I'm also the one who came up with the money idea."

"Time travel, or secretly immortal? If it's the first one I want in.

Or the second, for that matter."

He grins. "First one, and not in a controllable manner, I'm afraid. There was this little beastie..." And here goes the story of the Charybdis again, and going to the past, and the Behaims, and money, and returning to the future. Rose's not mentioned, though.