Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferentes

The characters belong to Eoin Colfer, the title comes from Virgil.



Innocence…

Her eyes widened as she opened the heart-shaped box. Nestling in silver tissue was a delicate gold chain, each link a finely-worked holly leaf; an antique copy of The Booke hung from it like a charm. She smiled at the anonymous card,

"I knew he had a spark of decency."

and Guilt

If he made some sort of restitution, they'd think he had really changed: after all, he still had several electronic copies of the sprite's book securely stored in Swiss vaults, not to mention hard copies, so he'd lose nothing by returning the original. As long as no-one assayed the gold…