"I suppose you could, theoretically. They might kill first and ask questions later. Or they might test whether it's really me. After being so deeply in hiding for so long it wouldn't make much sense, and wouldn't look natural or normal, for me to suddenly appear in public. They might not trust it at all and err on the side of caution and wait. Watch. There's no hurry, now that they know roughly where I am." Because of Pansy, she thought with only a slight amount of bitterness. Though she was sure that Cecily had kept to herself that she'd managed to get into the Nott wards, she had made it sound as though the knowledge of her whereabouts on Nott Manor property was known.