Kaya herself brought out some of the fish she bought and ate quietly. "So then we won't just have to worry about them targeting us: they'll try to mess with Stacy again too. This is bad: they're going to see we are less and less in their control. This was why I didn't go down there for the punishment. If I'd see you with Orc..."

She wouldn't have held back, that was what. And what good would that have done them in the long run?

"It wasn't something we chose, Howard, not any of us. Where there is peace war is never far behind. That's just how things are."