FWIW, Karen/Kara is one of the expected casualties at the end of things. She gets to die a hero after finally being able to cut loose, freeing her authorial "cool" back to the textpool.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll