Chapter 372

• "Strangely wise, if a bit pessimistic. I like that."
• She did? Oh. Well, that was good. The more people who liked him, the better his chances of survival.
• And he liked her. And Jes. And Dao. Especially Dao. His whole damn life he couldn't ever stand people who talked without saying anything, and now he was spending all his time with a woman he could barely understand at all, and was enjoying it. He was loving it. Every click she made had him doing a mental dance trying to figure out what she said, like a puzzle or a game. It was fun. She was fun. She was nice. Sometimes he wondered about Jes's suggestions of just, hanging around, doing nothing but fucking and hiding out like those two had been before they found him.