"He's good at that," Kash agreed, as he reached down to tilt the bottle up for Trinket.

A moment passed, and then another, Kash drinking his beer, Snow stroking the bear, and then he realized, he didn't want not to talk about Z or think about her tonight. The words came out quickly, an answer for an answer to a question not asked about how he was getting through. "Lillith's my girlfriend's cousin." And there was Curnen, but that was a different thing and not something he needed Snow to know about now.