QUOTE : I'm trying not to get kicked out of your life," and I got it, embarrassingly belated. I had Aadhya and Liu, now, and not just him. It was like all that mana at my hands, something so vital you could get used to it so fast you'd almost forget what life had been like without it--until it went away again. But he didn't. He didn't have anybody else; he'd never had anybody, the same way I'd never had anybody, but now he'd had me, and he wanted to lose that about as much as I wanted to trade him and Aadhya and Liu for an enclave seat in New York.