Right now his only problem—more of an irritant really—is that primitive
slitch Striper. He should never have allowed her to live. He should have 
finished her in Seattle. He would have done it, too, except that the slitch took 
him by surprise. With his lofty intellect and refined sensibilities, he did not 
expect to be challenged, much less confronted, by a savage, something risen from 
the bowels of the nightmares of humanity. If he has made any mistake at all, 
that was it, being surprised. Now, though, he knows better. That is why he had 
Enoshi hire killers. Fight primitives with primitives. That’s the ticket.