Wouldn't have helped. I've never seen his face.

[They weren't FaceTiming, it was just a phone call. But she already likes the cut of your jib, Shipp. Too bad she's too mad to get on his level.]

Who's Sly?

[Alexander sighs. "Sly is our name for the assumed right hand of Barnet Hallewell."

Kieran turns and stares at him for a long moment, her voice going far too even as she watches him.]

Someone want to tell me what my brother was doing anywhere near that snake oil salesman?

[She has a hunch, but she's trying not to panic about it.]