A Ghanima at home, who would soon be sick with the fear her brother was dead.

Ghanima shoved those darker thoughts to the side; she needed to focus on the here and now, not a past she could not (should not) change.

"Do you want to follow up on that cousin lead?" she asked. "I'll listen to the radio, and if she doesn't go to the clinic in the next few days, we'll talk to Zoe."

"I'm worried she may have torn something, or maybe have some slow internal bleeding; a transformation like that has to have some sort of physiological consequences."