"Yeah, maybe," she agreed, and paused for a moment. What could she say? Russell had earned her trust to some degree, in some ways. Maybe she could tell him a bit about her past as long as she edited it even more heavily as usual.

"I'm just glad it didn't turn out to be a pattern. When I lived in Paris there was a dirtbag that killed something like eight women. His last attempted victim was me. Didn't work out well for him, but I don't tend to be a fan of that kind of thing all the same."

It hadn't worked out well for anyone, actually, other than the women Crane wasn't going to victimize in the future. O'Brien had ended up in Section when he really was just a good cop while she'd had to kill Crane and frame O'Brien.