"A safe," John answers. He has one in the other apartment and a dolly waiting for him to bring it upstairs into Karen's. It's a fair size, hard to move, but he thinks he can do it without too much trouble, and it's the best place to keep most of the weapons. A few handguns they can keep in lock boxes and he has a gun case for the rifles, but there are other, slightly less legal things, they need to be careful with.

"For the valuable books," he says with a little smile. "The ones we probably wouldn't want anyone to steal."

Or know about at all. He's fairly certain no one watches him in Darrow, he'd spent weeks and months scouring his apartment in order to make sure it hadn't been bugged, and he'd broken into the surrounding apartments to make sure his neighbours were legitimate, but he'd never found anything. Even so, there are things they need to keep hidden.