It's an odd relief to rake her mind over the initial question and turn up almost nothing; another fall to go over who else was collateral before that.

"I pistol-whipped Rags once when he broke into my cabin," she says. No one gave a shit, and that bothered her about as much as the needlessness of the whole thing –– Annie's flightiness, Kiryu's dismissal of it, her own overextended defence of her space.

"And before that, the day before I got here. Joel and I killed an old business partner. A few people before that, over the years."