"But not quite enough to survive," she answered, deliberately declining to specify between the knight and Porky, as Porky's knight traded for her own. Not her best line, but the taunting prattle that had drifted back and forth across the chessboard was suddenly starting to grate on Evangeline's nerves, a sure sign things weren't going so well for her. The trade might have seemed an even exchange to an amateur, but between the loss of her knight and her earlier movement of her bishop out of its dominant position her strong center suddenly looked all too vulnerable.