Oh... not as rhetorical as Allenby had thought. That was too bad.

"Yeah. It's not like... he's dead," she said, forcing the last two words out. That was something she didn't like to acknowledge as a possibility. Even if she did, she was sure it was an incredibly slim one. In fact, the possibility that this gal brought up sounded pretty good. "I think we oughta try that. I don't want to let the Daligig decide which one of my friends can and can't walk around just 'cause they don't like 'em."

Maybe it'd be more prudent to try that after throwing them out, though.