"People don't usually appear unexpectedly inside the capitols without already knowing that Edward is a mindreader," Bella says. "His range is about a mile if he doesn't know you well, up to about five if he comes to, he only gets surface thoughts, he tells me everything I want to know but we can be jointly discreet if it's sensitive and there's no overriding concern, the Imperial Factotum can and occasionally does copy his power and she can and occasionally does give Elspeth a complete copy of her memories, neither of them is natively discreet but they do not make habits of disclosing the contents of others' minds. I think that's the extent of the ways in which your thoughts could depart your brain without you noticing them doing it."

"Unless you authorize them to share," Nathan says.