"You're sure those things aren't going to bite us?" Linn's voice came up out of a whisper into something dangerously close to speech.
"That's Bram." Mercury answered before I could. Flat. Absolute. "Whatever he says it is, that's what it is."
"I didn't ask you, bitch. Keep your mouth shut."
"I don't know whether you're having a bad time of the month, girl." The edge came straight into Mercury's voice. "But you're lucky I'm at the back of this alley."
"And what were you going to do if you weren't?"
You have no idea who you're talking to.
I watched what she did to Richard.
"Bram." Mercury's voice dropped. The fight in it went somewhere quieter and more practical. "Just go. Move."
I couldn't. Linn was our route. She was the only person here who knew which building we were walking to, and dragging her along a street she was terrified of was going to cost more time than persuading her.
