"Fair point," she smiles softly, and it widens further when he squeezes her hand. It's nice to have the comfort returned. Especially when she catches the barest glimpse of Heleen disappearing around the next corner.

Further still when she hears the cruel, sing-song voice call out to her from some unseen point ahead of them now. "Little Lynx..."

Inej has no reason to think he might not hear her the same way she heard the voice intoning cruelties to him as well- this particularly horrible ghost from her past seems only to have gained power in the Horizon, assuming they are still in it at all wherever this maze truly is.