Hello, Kanta. They're saying interesting things about you on the news," she said. "I wondered if you'd survived." "He didn't," I said. "I killed him." Silence. "I killed Mkhai, too," I said. "Tens of thousands of years, gone in the blink of an eye." ...
I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
