"She does," She affords him a slight grin. "But I don't get tired of hearing it either." Nor would she say it was unearned either; for all they accused her of being a hard ass against Cassie when she first enlisted, they couldn't call her guilt of nepotism either.

"Just spikes or are we including cow trops as well?" In either event, the spikes, she imagined, would actually fare well against the void blobs-certainly they'd work against the other animals rampaging in the area.