For even though ISAAC can easily afford to spend a few million dollars on a ring, something about KY makes it difficult to waste so much money on something so materialistic. KY knows that's coming from KY, what with KY'S own shallow compulsion to continue stealing beautiful dresses, but at least KY knows that the two point five million will be going to someone who needs it.

KY could have told all of this to ISAAC when they were alone, but ISAAC was already so upset that KY did not think it was a good idea to say anything else about the ring.

KY instead contentedly ponders how much the...