The young geneticist has been on edge all month, but she is visibly shaken by Diya's death. Not just because she had been a protégé to Diya for years, and that for a long time she had looked up to the former haut lady – but with all the shady dealings between the haut on base, Amai is gripped with fear and paranoia. She has no idea if Diya found out about Sei's deal with the Jacksonians, or if Sei found out about the ba experiments on her own – in the case of the latter, no heat has come down on Amai recently, so it's impossible to tell.

While Amai is generally as inclined to write off most of the exotics as inferior offworlders as the rest of the Cetagandans, knowing what she knows, the story about Natasha just killing Diya and then taking off just doesn't sound quite right. But she's not stupid enough to say anything about it. She supposes that with Diya dead, that's one less problem she has to worry about, but – God – she's a little nauseated to think about it that way.

Amai weeps openly at Diya's funeral, and she's subdued and jumpy for the days following. And after the nuclear attack, she's a little bit horrified. She won't advertise that fact, because she isn't a soldier and she's far outnumbered here, but even to her it seemed a little too much like overkill.