`` what did you think you were doing , just cutting out on everybody ? the guard pulled out a chair for luther . my shoulders curled forward as i set the champagne glass on the rail and leaned so that the wood dug into my ribs . `` how often do you look at these pictures ? '' did you check his phone , did he make any calls before he died , and was it in his pocket ? `` surely a clever man like your own self can find a way to change the blessed emperor 's mind . '' 