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Marcus joined her, resting on the hood of the patrol car.

‘You get a message from Blackstone?’

‘I skimmed it, but I didn’t understand it.What’s going on?’

‘My guy in La Paz.He found Ray. He’s been down there on a kind of hippy commune for years. She realized, when she saw the sculptures, that she couldn’t stop caring. She needed to know what had happened to him. Luckily, I hadn’t got round to pulling my guy off the case. So she’s flying down to TJ with the aged Mama.’

‘They’ll have a lot of catching up to do.’

‘Well, it might be too late, but least they’ll have a chance to mend broken bridges.That’s what counts.All the while you’re still drawing breath, you’ve got a chance to make things right.’

She considered that for a moment.It sounded like one of the homespun nuggets of wisdom Marcus usually attributed to his grandma.Kate often suspected, actually, that they came straight from Marcus himself, and that he passed them off as his grandma's, so that no one would dare to find fault with them. Sometimes, though, accidentally or otherwise, they made sense, or gave you a little lift, at the very moment it was most needed.

Shecouldfight on.Unlike Brandon Ashworth, Elena Vasquez, and David Sterling, she wasn't dead.All the while there was breath in her body, she would keep on challenging the bullies and the bad guys, keep on protecting the weak, turning the wrongs into right.

Because that was what she did.