She gestured at herself, covered in filth and blood in the middle of a scummy road in Johannesburg. "Oh I'm giddy, ecstatic. This is everything a girl dreams of when she grows up and I'm just living it up," she replied, sarcasm thicker than cement. Spare her the invisible and useless gratitude of a distant alien empire. His praise ripped at something in her and she stormed at him. "Are you going to thank the Planet Eater, too?" she snapped. "Tell him he did a great job crushing their homeworlds to dust and then driving them here to try to wipe us out? Let me ask you this, you super-wonderful high tech guys got some special ray for erasing minds? Cause I'll take that debt if your people can dig into my brain and scrape out everything that has happened to me since that damn day."