"Oh no, nothing malicious, just for the joy of it, or the skill, or just to see how far they could actually get." Which was, he was fairly sure, all the way back home, depending on just what they broke into.

"For one thing I don't think the kid's got a malicious bone in her body." She was dangerous, certainly, or could be if pushed, they'd all seen that, but it wasn't out of meanness on its own, just out of survival.