Lotti Getts has a lot of nicknames, including Nails, because of her specially-made razor nails, and the White Widow, because most of her "luvmates" (99) have not lived long. Lotti only noticed Spaz once before, on the day he lost his family unit, and she told him he had “bad blood” (99) before banishing him from the latch. Spaz has a feeling they knew he was coming. Lanaya isn’t afraid because they know her to be a kind proov. She gets out of the takvee voluntarily, saying she’s come to trade, while the others hide inside. Lotti stares at her in a way that “[m]ost normals would be afraid to stare like that at a proov, but not Lotti” (100). Lotti questions her, asking what she has to trade, because there’s someone running mindprobes into her latch, where probing is forbidden under penalty of death. 

She checks the takvee, lifting Lanaya out of the way to do so and putting her down on the hood, and finds the trio hidden inside. Once she gets them out, they do their best to excuse and explain the situation, but Lotti isn’t interested; Spaz says he’ll do whatever she wants if he can see

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