"Your daddy teach you that too?" York says with a raised eyebrow. Suddenly, she gets an idea of what she thinks Severa's dad might have been like, back in their world. For a girl who's used to swinging around live steel, she's sure got an awful cute idea of how the world works.

"Yeah, that's one way of looking at it," she says. "How I see it, though, is this: some people are willing to pay an awful lot of money to get people to do their dirty work. Or, y'know, things they don't know to do. Sometimes those people are your government."