"I get the feeling that you only learn lessons when you feel like it," Which wasn't a good thing by any stint of the imagination but rather a simple, unavoidable fact of Cuthbert Allgood, as Kaine knew him. "I also wish I was surprised that there's a crypt here but I'm really not." Nor did it amaze her that Alain had been smart enough to avoid it. Someone with that extra Sense probably shouldn't wander around with the dead.

"This is what they call easy communication, isn't it?" She looked up at him briefly, head tilted curiously. "Usually when I talk to people I'm thinking about punching them in the face. Unless it's Nariko." That was a whole different set of thoughts that played in her head while her friend spoke or ordered her around, or cried about something. "It's very easy with you."

And she wasn't thinking of punching him, either.