'' again , '' said virginia , stepping back and sitting in the armchair facing kyle , '' what does any of that have to do with me ? '' '' he 's trying to get you -- he 's been making contact and trying to draw you into his little games . '' '' uh , did n't you say he was offing girls in the 1890s ? i assume this guy is long dead by now . '' '' dead and well , wandering the library to this day , '' said kyle

nariman and martineztown had been manufacturing and energy production sites in the first wave of colonization , and the displacement that came with new technologies meant both neighborhoods were struggling to reinvent and repurpose themselves . innis deep and innis shallows each had only a single tube route out , making them cul-de-sacs and havens for the sort of martian who was almost a belter-antisocial , independent , and intolerant . an address in either innis was the mark of an outsider-someone dangerous or vulnerable . leelee lived in the shallows , and hutch lived in the deep

and then i mentally shook myself . the man was a transient , had wasted his life and no doubt destroyed his liver , but he was n't a threat to me . a lack of manners did not indicate a criminal mind , as my mother had always implied it did . more than anything , he was to be pitied

'' you 're crazy . '' '' i am ? you 're the one who opened the door without waiting for an answer , and what did you need anyway ? '' '' my brush , '' i answered sheepishly . he was right , i did pretty much barge right in . '' here you go , '' he held out the
brush