"Ori'kotep, ad'ika." You've been a very brave girl. Novoc hugged her again, stroking her hair. "I missed you too. Everything's going to be okay now."

He stood again, giving Badd a flat look. He was trying hard not to take his suspicion personally, but it was difficult. He was just so foreign to everything Novoc considered acceptable. But he had to work with him, for Kay's sake. "Suppose if you were to let me in now?" he asked. "Might be better than continuing this in the hall." They might have given away all kinds of things already, if anyone was watching Badd's apartment.