Ordinarily she'd make some comment about how she'd never go back, career spacer for life - but maybe he'd thought that once too, she realises. Young Tradeliners tend to be very blasé about the prospect of dying in some fiery explosion - can't fill you with terror if you can joke about it, right? Surviving but being no good for the lines afterwards? That doesn't get talked about. And she's not going to start now when she's liable to say entirely the wrong thing.

'The upside is, you bring my tailor sketches and you can get whatever you want made. Prices are reasonable, too. So if you ever longed to try the most dramatic fashions from back home...' Tayrey smiles.

'The cards are simple! It'll be easy enough once I can look it over, pick apart the probabilities.' This is just common sense to her. 'We play a game called kalixtri shipside, so I'm used to the concept, even if not the specifics of this one. I'm getting a set of kalixtri cards made for next time, couple of people want to try it out.'