Kelly snorted again at Steph's fumbling. She was adorable, really. Kids that age who got all shy over sex-talk always were. It was a reminder that not every girl her age got introduced to the physical life in various bad ways, that a lot of them still had room for blushes.

That kind of went down the drain with Tanith's next words. Kelly blinked for a moment. Marr, dead? She wasn't sure how to feel about that. On the one hand, good. She'd tried to murder everyone in an office building. On the other hand, Kelly had seen a lot how the tit-for-tat mentality had made gang wars worse. It just kept on with the cycle.

In the end, she figured that at least there was definitely no way she was going to be a threat now. "Okay." She nodded. "That will make a few people feel better. There isn't much more unthreatening than being dead."

"Who did it?" Saffron asked, glancing up and apparently paying more attention than Kelly thought she was. She put down the pencil and pushed over the page, and didn't look terribly surprised at all. Kelly put that thought out of her head. Saffron had been raised in a ridiculous environment. Being chilled by it every time Kelly saw evidence wasn't going to help.