"How are you meant to clean up the dead animal parts if they've decomposed into soup?" X asks, semi-seriously. "You'd need more than a wheelbarrow and some pairs of hands, you'd need... well, you'd need a mop. At that point, why bother?"

Valdis never answered X's query over the yimo, and while X would prefer to give her the benefit of the doubt -- maybe she's left it behind for a bit -- odds are, Kit's right. They'll need to go looking for her. With a sigh sporting much more concern than exasperation, X takes out his yimo. "She didn't tell you what her new address is, did she?"