"What would I get out of this deal?"

"Depends on how useful you are," I said around a mouthful of shrimp salad. "I'll compensate you financially for your time at the very least."

"How about a question for a question?"

The last question game I'd played had ended up with me narrowly avoiding being chopped up for parts in a cockamamie Dream Market in Hedon. While we were now in the real world, I was kind of gun-shy about doing that, because Ivan was still a criminal. ...