Annulled is such a fucked up way to say massacred. It sounds so fussy, lawyerly, all business. Clarisse has only ever heard it used before during talks about marriage. Short-lived celebrity marriage, mostly.

She takes a sip of her drink to mask the little shiver that runs up her spine.

"He did what he had to do, then." Simple as that.

She is wondering about the wisdom of simply assuming that a guy is dead even though the people assigned to kill him have disappeared, but she believes Gwen that it was probably too chaotic to keep track of everything. Plans are easy. People are different.