You think I would send them to collect the Cup? I am not a fool. I know it's lure. Give it to me.

First? You don't trust me, Starkweather? I'll do as you asked. A bargain is a bargain. Though I must say I was astonished to get your message. I wouldn't have thought you'd mind a life of hidden contemplation, so to speak. You were never much for the battlefield.

Ah, yes. The ring.Funny isn't it, how an M worn upside down resembles a W? Of course, if you'd bothered to think about it, you'd probably have thought it a little strange that the symbol of the Wayland family would be a falling star. But not all strange that it would be the symbol of the Morgensterns.