"After watching another of Lewis' plans crash and burn? I guess it was just a look at everything I didn't want the rest of my life to be. If I'd escaped, if I'd run, again....I would have just fallen back into the same old problems. Wound up like him or working for some other loser like him. And I guess if nothing else I'd learnt to not want that any more."

She laughed under her breath.

"You were actually right. Working for Drakken and his peer group was demeaning and stupid. It took me a while longer to realize that."