Her thirst for vengeance
Not guilt about anything he had done personally, but the particular guilt of someone who has uncovered a crime committed by their bloodline and has been carrying the knowledge of it alone, trying to find a way to say it that doesn't destroy something important.
I looked at him for a long moment and didn't say anything, because I didn't have anything to say yet that I was confident was fair.
Hector, beside me, had gone very still in a different way... it was the stillness of someone working through a problem. "If Archibald is your grandfather," he said to me slowly, "then what does that make your connection to Lincoln?"
"Lincoln is Archibald's direct blood descendant," I said, following the l