"Mh," he grunted, spoon in his mouth at the time. It scraped against the line where the inside of his mouth became the golem hide on the outside. "Then I tried to get her to give me what she'd stolen. She wouldn't. And things got out of hand with Rezo..."

Zelgadis stuck the spoon into the remaining ice cream and let it sit there like something speared. "When all was said and done, she killed a fragment of our world's demon lord. Almost single-handedly."