Yes, Mrs. Madorn sang her secrets, but they were worth pretty much nothing without her husband. The blueprints were not anything that could be easily verbalized, and that was why Maxim Madorn was a genius. He could share something by wording it so that no one could possibly understand a blistering thing about what was being said - except for himself. This made losing him even worse than losing Eknie. Sure, the woman was more loyal, and, frankly, more useful when it came to matters of brutal violence, but she was not an inventor. No, she was not a scientist or a genius or anything that would have truly made her a great woman. Madorn was special, so different from others that it would have been outrageous to seriously compare him to anyone.
Ted was not obsessed with him, the high cor was simply a realist who could recognize an individual of some substance and quality when he saw such a person existing and doing their own brilliant things.
