Allenby kicked a rock. She'd been pissed as hell back there, and she'd had fun trying to get information out of that guy--a vindictive sort of pleasure in giving him some of what he deserved. And heck, she didn't think that was really wrong, but she couldn't help but feel awful about it now.

"We got the kid out of there. That's pretty important," she said, though she didn't sound too chipper about it. "I wish those two hadn't died, though. Beatin' them up is one thing, but they didn't deserve that."