Skater thought she was talking about Fuchi, but he couldn’t be sure. The woman sounded totally emotionally fragged from living on the edge too long. His sympathy went out to her, thinking that her present state must have been what Larisa Hartsinger went through those few months ago before she’d been killed by MacKenzie’s people. His throat constricted and he had to work hard to keep his own emotions from bleeding into his voice.