"She’s dead, isn’t she? So one’s first responses are the wrong ones, by definition. I think I’d have reckoned just to push through. No one’s ever suggested a Scheherazade could be indefinitely maintained. But if it wasn’t working...A counter-narrative. Recombine Hunter’s sense of self. But it would be quite difficult. The issue would be...well. It would come down to who was the better artist."