"No," Veronica immediately replies, abruptly wide-eyed with alarm. "No. Not unless he was trying to hurt someone. No." She feels like she can't repeat it enough to make herself clear, not when Cougar had offered so casually.

She realizes as she says it that J.D. might not find a reason to kill anyone here, if his bullshit manifesto was to be believed. This place is difficult, but there's definitely not any classism or pointless marginalization. At least, not among those of them trapped.

Then again, she has to wonder whether he'd find a reason, whether he'd gotten a taste for it...

She pulls in a sharp breath, squeezing her eyes shut for a moment. This is the last thing she wants to be thinking about right now.

"It probably doesn't even matter," she says, frowning as she opens her eyes again.