“So it was you that rescued me from the water,” Jenny stated matter-of-factly, “the day Ketta tried drowning me?”

“Yes,” Casina Altair told her friend. “It was fortunate that I happened by that day. Why I ventured outside to look for you, I’m not sure. Had I been a minute later, it might have been too late.”

“You blasted her with a laser?”

“Yes. Well, an orpod gun, actually. She never saw it coming, she was so busy with you. Never even heard me splashing toward her. After I zapped her, I dragged you from the water. Dammen’s men arrived just then, so they pulled Ketta out as well.” Jenny...