Well, some of my friends can be overenthusiastic- I probably wouldn't have seen it as suspect at the time either. [Sabriel nods, writing down notes in an elegant, somewhat old-fashioned script. Her expression is guarded, but sympathetic.]

I take it you grew closer after that, before he killed you in November. Did he have any other friends or associates- imPorts or locals- that you knew of? Were there any other signs of something being wrong with him before that?.