"Where'd you get that?"

"What?" asks Bina, then looks down. "Oh, right."



She'd forgotten she was even holding it.

"It's Gregor's, I pulled it out of the mud."

"That's funny," says Kendra. "If he had a gun the whole time, I wonder why he bothered with the shovel."

Which is about the point that Bina realizes she's made a serious and possibly fatal error.