Nancy shook her head, "Canadian," she said, stepping easily into speaking about herself and about Pati, giving them both a quick summery of her earlier life, and an even more brief summery of her last few years in Somalia - she could talk for weeks about Somalia, but was finding it strange to think about while sitting on a boat the middle of the Channel, like she'd stepped into a different world and no one would quite believe or understand where she'd come from. "I am looking forward to seeing England again," she said. "And my friends. I should warn you though, I'm not going back simply for pleasure. One of my friends, she's in trouble." Trouble was too light a word, but it grew heavier as Nancy went on to warn them of the problems they might run into in London, the auctioneers. Ko stiffened, horrified, till he was barely moving even to breathe.