"Please don't, had enough people looking at me like I'm a fucking alien from another planet. The irony of that shit is, if I was like that, how long do you think I'd last in this thing? I'd be a sitting duck. You think I'm expecting everyone to take it easy on me because I'm a little girl?"

No, they wouldn't. She knew that for sure. Happily, so did she.

"I'll still play with kids on the playground. They'll just have a knife in their pocket, like me, whenever a van comes and a stranger with candy baits us. Better a safe kid than a dead one."

She laughed. "Oh, I bet they'll be crying because I'm too young for champagne! But spies I have no problem with. I want to win this thing as bad as anyone else. For my own reasons."