"They managed to survive a death-trap planet and tried to eat Brenda before she teamed up with a huge muscular guy with a forehead full of justice," Paco said. "Or so I've heard. I did say that I missed all the fun space adventures."

"Killing's not exactly my first choice either," Paco said, tilting his head back to stare up at the ceiling. He'd never been in a situation where it would come up, aside from when the Reach had attacked. But the Reach had been easy, they'd been trying to kill him -- and Brenda and the Reyeses and even Milagro -- to hurt Jaime so they could kill him. And then blow up the planet and enslave the survivors.

But killing someone wasn't exactly something he liked thinking about.

"There are always kneecaps," he tried to joke.