"Neighbors. Airy went bloody gaga over the flier advertisin' houses. She wants us t'move in together really badly. I said sure, let's get a place."

It had taken some persuasion, some soothing of Cass's anxieties. Talking about it now, he found he'd relaxed into the idea, even if there were things he hadn't thought of yet -- like the quiet.

"I did take some convincin'. But that girl could get me to sell me own arms, if she had a mind for it."