"So you're saying that we're going to have to depend on the people who have strength to fight," she said, which was pretty much exactly what she thought was the case anyway. She had an idea that Tim would be all the more motivated to know that a little kid could figure that out. As it was, of course, she was one of those people who was going to be working hard to do her part. There seemed little reason to do anything else.

"But you are saying we have to be careful when it comes to what they know about us," she said, watching him. "Because even if we have no reason to think they're plotting something, we don't know everything about them still."