Little else. She had expected that but it was still a blow. All her careful years of avoiding detection of trying to build a life and now it lay (again) in a smoking ruin.

"Thank you for your help Mr. Echelon-Arnost. I will not claim to understand your reasoning, but I do appreciate it." Even if she had been less than helpful for most of the year. "I suppose you shall be expecting compensation?" Nothing in life came with out a cost. Not immortality nor legal advice.