‘I don’t think I was expecting this,’ I said. ‘Funnily enough, almost no one ever does. The hard cases are the ones who don’t even remember ever dealing with Ultras. You’re not that badly off, are you?’ ‘No,’ I admitted. ‘And that makes me feel a lot happier, you know.’ ‘What does?’ ‘Knowing that there’s always some poor bastard worse off than me.’ ‘Hmm,’ she said, with a note of disapproval. ‘I’m not sure that’s quite the attitude one should be having, Tanner.
