"Because she's been [i]interfering[/i] in my relationship with Barrel for a long time. She keeps using our feelings for each other against us. Barrel only ever gets into trouble when the other two drag him into it; the fact he's so fed up that [i]he[/i] wants some kind of vengeance says something, you know?"

She picked up on of her notes and offered it to them: a basic description of the effect she was trying to achieve, and some scribbled thoughts on how to get it to work. "Besides, [i]if[/i] I can find a way to get the timing right, I [i]think[/i] I've found a way to keep her from even finding out either of us had anything to do with it."