"I was handling it!" she snarls back. She might not have had a long-term plan, but at least she was keeping him distracted while staying out of harm's way. "And much good your search party did us," she adds, voice shaking. "Romac found us, first."

But maybe that's just as well, if Edgar and Almondine would have been leading the rebel group. She doesn't want to think about what would have happened if they'd appeared before Gabriel knocked Yuri out - or before Gabriel showed up at all.