—Don't let her get inside... —he was going to say "in your head," but corrected himself: —...in your soul. And she's no mistress. Just another phantom with big ears, one of the hundreds the world has chewed through, digested, and spat out into the backyards of history. Okay. If you never liked it, that's a different story. ...And who are you now, if not "Aya"?...