[She does. The corner of her mouth curls, just a touch of wickedness, the mark of a person who takes a measure of pride in her work no matter how unsavory it gets. People can be carried and sold like any other cargo. Sometimes survival calls for it.]

When you smuggle an adult, they might be scared, but they're stronger, and they usually have a hell of a lot more experience and common sense. Kids in my time are tough, but they're still kids. Someone's got to have an eye on them at all times, you have to get them up and over wreckage, you've got to keep them calm. She'd never been outside the walls so there was a lot of learning on the fly.

[A pause.]

My partner doesn't really like working with kids, so managing them falls to me. The girl was good, at least. Did what she was told.