He leaned in, chuckling. «And I wouldn't let the Stellar Seven find out you call her words like that, not when you hear what she did to her brother after the fight: she took one of his bloody eyes right out; just sliced it off like a rotten fig about to spoil the bunch. This was in the Grand Hall itself, if you can believe it -- and the Balladeer was even right there, but as soon as Marcos asks can he please get his eyeball back, the Eclipse starts talking rules and reg, 'Oh it wasn't an official duel or training exercise, can't heal your eye, you fucker, sorry.' He's got some lip to him, he does. But like every Eclipse, he knows how to lick the right arses.»