"Zoe, boss, pal, incredibly pregnant woman with good aim," Hades said, sweeping into the room without knocking. "It's been too long. Nice rant there yesterday. Wanna bet they got all indignant? Not that I care," he added, examining a random object on her desk, "but you know, it's hard to break out of the business. I like deaths to be on a schedule. If I wanted to be an on-call kind of guy, I'd be the god of, I don't know, medicine or internet role-playing games."