Didi freezes in shock, partly from his words and partly at the sight over his shoulder. The gunslinger stands at attention, silent, blue light extinguished. What is he doing here? Why does Dad have him? She's happy to see him, though he's as dead to the world as he was when she deactivated his self-destruct by killing him. Sure, she'd hoped to save him, save them all by doing so. But, now she knows better. He warned her this might happen and she did it anyway.

Murderer. She's ...