"Excellent," Cyrene stated, "mainly because it's basically true."

Kaniji's expression seemed to say that she would hardly intervene to prevent the death of either me or Monica, but she wisely kept her mouth shut.

Frank gave me a curious look. "You might very well be handed over to Malarias for punishment."

"No," Monica said adamantly. "That won't happen because that would require me to make a formal complaint against Kim and I won't do that." She looked around. ...