Really, it was kinder to let Kathy be wrong. She wasn't that far off, and imagining angry heroin addicts was better than having Splicers in your head.

"We did," he confirmed, not letting her go. "Got an extra passenger, too. There was a little girl who -- she'd been given up by her parents and treated badly. We brought her back with us."

If Kathy pressed, he'd tell her more about Louise. But her story was almost too horrifying to think about, let alone discuss.