"You're kidding!" But of course he wasn't. "I love it, absolutely. It's astonishing, I'm sure most of these costumes are actually the real thing." She'd left it to Cooper to track down her dress for the evening, and he'd done extremely well.

"I'm not Daybreak," she says simply. "I don't get a vote- but if I could, yes, he'd have my vote. Nothing against Cesare- he's a dear friend, but I trust Jean-Claude politically a lot more." Not to mention the feud between Cesare and Cooper and how she had a tendency to get in the middle of it. It would not be helpful to get them going at it on the Night Council, too.