"I can because I don't," Kate replied, edging away from Nikola and his electric display to stand in the shadow of few trees that were just off the sidewalk. Enough cover to keep her from being immediately spotted (though the light show was surely going to attract more undead than not) and to give her time to search through the spaces between the trees with the rifle scope for any advancing bodies, "And you'd be smart to stop implying otherwise," she added a beat later, "Puns notwithstanding."
Though, really, she didn't have much enjoyment in those either. Too many nights spent listening to Castle think up more titles for his books, undoubtedly.