Nobody likes me enough to ransom me, [ he replies coolly. Nobody here, at least. He's a stranger - an inconvenient one, Carver knows. ] But fine: I'm getting bored. So, here's a secret, motherfuckers - I'm a bastard just like my mama. Turns out it really does run in the family.

[ He bares his teeth out in the gloom, waiting to see if that does anything. It happens to be true, but it isn't really a secret, just not something anyone thinks to ask him. ]