The Tangle you better keep your head, little girl

The girl tried to be funny. Indra hadn't laughed in a long time—it was just as likely she was incapable, given her current state of mind. Had she ever felt good enough to laugh? Whatever. It wasn't a funny jest that came from Chacal; it was an odd little statement that made Indra look at her with a squint, and nothing else.

Leave me alone. She murmured after a beat, and scurried on through the tangle after Val.