Zoe lifts her shoulders in a shrug. There's nothing wrong with checking, after all. It wasn't as if Julien and Victor liked each other, even if they had a grudging respect for each other. And there were plenty of people who thought of challenging as a challenge instead of a punishment. "I don't know if Victor will be disappointed or relieved," she says dryly.

"I'd say it would be easier," she adds. "To choose who you want to challenge and then decide what to challenge them in. Isn't part of it exploiting their weaknesses, after all?" Zoe Fox is a sweet, relatively kind young woman. Popular, considered to be a soft Spade in a lot of ways. But most of her challenges have been about exploiting her opponent's weaknesses, even when she was a Heart.

Maybe especially then, really.