Zahra understood what Jai was saying, but it didn't make her feel any less useless. She might have had a chance to help protect her friends and classmates and yet she hadn't been given the opportunity. She guessed that maybe the powers-that-be had something else planned.
And then he went from being halfway decent to a jerk again. "If you keep goading me,
MISTER
Phoenix, I may just eat you right here," Z growled at Jai. And then she needled a little on her own, "It would be in public anyway since you could be a pervert for all I know." Ha. So there. "The boardwalk in Halifax has a lot of free things to do so we can go dutch."