Sorry, Kahlan, but the only day Surreal made anything easy for anyone was probably going to be the day she died.

"Well, we did just get the small talk out of the way, so you don't have to waste time on pretending to care about other things," Surreal offered helpfully, and if she was just going to pin her garrote back into her hair, well, that's because she was done with the cleaning and that's where it belonged and it wasn't a deliberate threat. Mostly. "So now you've saved an hour."