"Nah," Hickey grins, perfectly fine to gossip with Kieren. After all, Kieren's his mate! Who better to gossip with? "He gave me the ring after we dealt with all that Forest Talker nonsense. I gave him a ring back on Terror so now we've got a matching set."

Well, sort of. Kind of. Not really. They were both stolen off corpses though, so that counts.

"Makes it official, yeah?"