It's Chloe. But it's also not important. "Sandy, honey," Zoe says after a moment. "I didn't...like Sieben very much, but Nicholas has never been anything less than polite." She didn't know him well, and their conversations were stilted, but well - there'd been Sieben and there'd been Sandy, and the Sandy thing had seemed complicated.

She takes a deep breath. "I love Victor," she says softly. "And I know that sometimes when he goes off-Deck, it's to kill someone, and in March I watched him kill a man in a challenge. Violently. And I still love him, knowing he's like that. So I'm not going to judge you for Nicholas, Sandy. I can't. If you like Nicholas, then I'll tell you to be careful. But I'm not going to tell you he's wrong for you.

"But I know what it's like to be overwhelmed," she adds, "and...I think you're going to be a really good Seven of Hearts, Sandy, because you're taking your responsibilities seriously. But you have to have time to relax, too."

Or this kind of thing happens, she thinks. "Are you worried?" she asks. "About the counter?"