[ Family. Sure, that has Sevika scrunching her nose at the thought, but she won't disagree. In a way, she, Jinx, and Silco are a family. Unfortunately, that includes Vander, which lays the problem; he's an unwanted addition, and he's adamantly against two of the three. ]

You're beginning to sound like Talis.

[ Which she knows will irk him. Sorry, Jayce. ]

He told me the same thing, except he realized after that we were already paying that price, at least in Zaun. No one's born healthy down there. If shimmer has long-term ramifications for those benefits? It's still better than what we're already getting, but as it stands, I've yet to see any.

[ Abuse, misuse, overuse, yes, but those were a personal problem. ]

If that makes you suspicious of it, that's fair, but I don't see much use in lying about what it can do.

[ As for the rest, she shrugs and fishes out a new cigarette from a pocket. ]

And I bring it up because Vander will move against me and the old man no matter what we do. We could open a fucking bakery and he'd try to get people on his side to shut us down.