"Don't be stupid," Mindy said. "An injury is still what it is, and you want to live, right? Seeing out of that eye better is a fuck of a good thing than just getting hazy vision. I'm one of the baddest bitches I know, and even I wouldn't shrug off something that could make me weak."

Seriously, the name of the game wasn't ego. Not now, anyway.

"FYI, if I wanted to kill you guys, I would have been trying right now, not pretending until I killed you. I can kill, and I have, but I save that kind of shit off the lowest type."