It was Felix liked word games so damned much, not Mildmay, but Mildmay heard the out she was giving with that 'should'. 'Cause if you asked him, wasn't nothing about him and Kolkhis Corbie should fucking know. Not here anyway, where mosta the time, Keeper couldn't hurt 'em. And the other things Keeper'd made him do, but not none of the others while he was around... nope, he wasn't gonna tell Corbie any about that.

"Nuh-uh. She's the queen bitch of bitchkitties, but at least she mostly kept her kids alive and outta trouble." Which was more than you could say about some keepers, like Felix's – and if he hadn't already been dead in The Fire, what Mildmay woulda wanted to do to him woulda made what he did to Griselda look like a hug and cuddle, forget his plan not to kill nobody no more.