"You haven't really made s- s- sense of anything," Lin pointed out with the type of irritability born more from discomfort. "What happened t- to her, anyway? How d- d- did she--Uh. Yeah. How?"

There'd been rumours. She went away with the Foreigners, and when they came back a year later she was dead. No one, as far as Lin remembered, had asked any of the Foreigners directly.