Sunday afternoon finds Martel ... working, as surprises probably no one. Idle hands and the devil's work, after all. He's in the library, at least, rather than shut away in his warded work rooms or the tower study. It makes him considerably easier to find, if preoccupied when you get to him.

The door that he directed Joseph to is precisely where and how he described it; locked on one side, with an armed guard of Arum mercenaries on the other. (Who already, conveniently, know to expect at some point a Joseph Kartell and to pass him off to Ewar as quickly as possible.)