She swallowed, her mind shying away from numbers like that. Her world wasn't nearly so populous.

"But you did the job and did it well," she said quietly, turning the implications of that over in her mind. "And that's something that, somehow, is desperately important."

You did the job.

"Doesn't make it good, but it's not--from malice?" Ino struggled for words. "I mean, at least, not from where I'm standing?"