"If she did, I sure as shit didn't see her anywhere in the mundy," she would have looked for him, he's sure she would. "Last time I asked for anything at the fucking office I was told to come back in four to six months. It ain't that simple, Wolf."

There was always a solid wall against anyone who didn't have the right money or the right title. It was a broken system and Grendel hates it. He knows Snow is trying to make it better, but she's effectively trying to fix a bullet wound with a band aid. She might never fix what Crane put in place before her.

"I mean, it would have been a shitty way to go. Offed by a bunch of fuckin' kidlets by bein' pushed into your own oven. Tragic." He grunts, which might be a laugh. who knows. "That's because us really vicious ones could scrap our way outta the Homelands in the first place. So all them little mice and piggies and princesses and whatever could come following behind."