"After the jaunt, well, I've had worse losses. That was enough within my idiom that I'm fine, and it opens some other opportunities. In general..."

For a moment, her perpetual smile drops. "In general, it's never good when one of us is taken out of the game in that fashion. If there's one comfort, it's that being attacked was more in Abaddon's idiom than what happened last time."

It'll get set right at the end. Probably.

"I might be in the mood for a few questions. But as usual, I reserve the right not to answer."