Okay, that earned him a slight thawing out. Being stolen away by Warren was a very nice thing to think about.

"I'll have to see if I can pencil you into my busy schedule," Karla said, because, thawing or not, she was still pretty miserable and grumpy. "I did make a lot of new friends while being left to my own devices."

Of course, all of that aloofness was rendered moot when she turned a pathetic face up to him and added, "My head hurts. My hair hurts. Fix it."

No she wasn't going to tell you how, Warren! Karla had blown threw her allotment of maturity during yesterday's talk with Ender.