Tahiri did the same with the gremlin that had come after her, albeit less neatly. "So we can't say we didn't give it a shot," she concluded, and jerked her chin to indicate the third, most sluggish but also probably the most mad because of that, gremlin heading for them.

"I think I liked it better when the only kind we had to deal with bit us and ran off and made us act weird."

Which was a little bit sad, wasn't it?