"Traps, stakes, spears, guns--" Kate shrugs, then steps up to take down the girl's score on the blackboard. "Island's kind of catch as catch can for weaponry." And Kate had reasons not to want to be part of the hunting team. Weird, it didn't stick to rattlesnakes but maybe that was 'cause one bite from a sunning snake in the wrong place could kill William or Bonny.

She writes a K in her column and realizes they haven't gotten around to doing introductions yet. "Kate, by the way. You?"