Why do you think Nadira is so interested in Matt’s adventures with Vikram Szpirglas, as shown in the following passage?
Nadira waited. Her eyes had none of Kate’s appreciative brightness. Her gaze unsettled me, it was so intent.
"He came down and kicked at my fingers, trying to break my grip."
"That’s ugly," said Hal.
"But then I gave him a great kick and managed to trip him up, and he started sliding off the fin." I paused, wishing I could stop the story there, with a triumphant, quick-witted blow. But Kate already knew that wasn’t the end. "Szpirglas regained his grip, though, and came back to me, and I saw his eyes and knew he was about to break my skull with his steel-toed boot. Then something brushed his shoulder. There was a whole flock of cloud cats passing over the Aurora, and one of them knocked him off balance. That time he truly did fall."
"He just fell?" Nadira said.
I nodded.
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