(No, self, you do NOT need to go re-read the prologue and take meticulous notes on similarities between the Year 0 folks and their descendants...)

:D Guess what. I'd wanted to say that maybe this might actually be the perfect storm of Michael and Signe's traits combined, because Michael is very concerned with his own skin above all else, but then I reread and remembered that he is the whole mess for Magnus to begin with... so, yeh. SIGNE, COME ON, WE NEED YOU!