"Of course. Those are the ones I have no satisfactory answer for, as yet."

She looks down at her hands.

"Not that one needs a partner. But a safe place."

Iris already failed that test, Bianca thinks. She's had children, but she's known nothing about them for longer than Bianca can easily remember. She'd like to hope it was done to keep them safe, but knowing Iris, she's more inclined to attribute it to pure selfishness. And you wondered why I shot you.

"My - well, my past is inclined to make me doubt the feasibility of it, as a plan. I haven't historically been very good at that level of commitment."

Understatement of the millennium, she thinks.