Familiar characters are Janet's.

"Heard you saw Kane," Tank told Steph.

"Yup. He looked happier than the last time I saw him."

Olivia was recently fed and is all smiles as she charmed an almost-one out of Hector, giving us a minute to talk.

"A potential prison stay tends to piss off a guy."

Long before Olive was born, I'd taken Steph with me to save Kane from another run-in with his past and the law, this time at a bar.

"There's no one better to have watching your back," I said.

"True," Tank agreed, remembering missions we've shared. "Still a crazy sonuvabitch, though."

"He seems sane to me," Steph added.

"You tell her about him?" Tank asked.

"Only what she wanted to hear."

"Even the vague things Ranger described gave me nightmares."

She squeezed my hand in apology. We both know I still get nightmares from living it.

Tank continued. "Kane's granddaddy was a test-jumper to see if it was possible to parachute behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, with an atomic bomb strapped to him, and live."

"That was the beginning of the insanity," I finished for him.