Chapter 9: The Address AXIOM Gave Them

We did not go to Camberwell.

That is the first thing worth recording, because it explains everything that followed. Holmes made the decision before we reached the street — I could tell by the angle of her stride, the way she turned south rather than east when we came out of her building into the thin grey morning, heading toward the river rather than the overground. She had already decided that AXIOM's flag was a door she was not prepared to walk through on AXIOM's schedule.

"Bermondsey Pier," she said, without turning. "I want to think."