"What do you mean? You were here this whole time! We talked! You apologized to me!" The panic was setting in, she was starting to quiver and shake. She didn't know what to do. Laura's self-defense lessons hadn't progressed to the part where she was ready to take on foes with bladed weapons, foes who were much stronger than she was.

She whimpered as he grabbed her arm, tears welling up in her eyes already. Laura was right. Bob was right. They were all right about Gamzee. He hadn't changed. He had faked his entire reformation. "Why?"