"Listen." she said, cutting him off. "You’re the mage. You’ve done this stuff for years. I’m just a kid who Cat helps out from time to time. I only let you into Masaki’s apartment because I figured you wanted to thank me for saving your life. If I wanted to be cross-examined, I’d go back to fragging .. ." She swallowed, unable to complete the sentence, even though she’d begun it in jest. Not enough time had elapsed since her narrow escape from the jail and the cop who’d killed her friends.