All sympathy for Palamedes tho bc having met Dulcie, a hunky mysterious death cultist swooping in to catch her like a romance novel protagonist is exactly the sort of excitement that would have distracted her for weeks. The thing with Gideon wasn’t all that out of character if you couldn’t hear their conversations
I bet Palamedes watched it happen and thought, giddy with excitement, that Dulcinea was going to tell him all about it soon