//I see Ariel often enough,// Jono mused. //She stops by th'shop, now and then. Makita's always been a bit independent. But they're both not bad people.//

He wiped out the X that he'd drawn in the table-salt, and started idly trailing his fingers through the mess, some more.

//I need to track down Ben again, I think. We haven't mocked so-called horror films together in a while.//