"No, it's a saved image. That's Mishka's brother Istradez. They had a fight which left Strashik with a concussion, amplifying a pre-existing condition, so he's not coming on this mission."

Sasha supposes that now she knows what the fight was about. Mishka is an eightfold-damned little weasel, and she didn't ask him the right questions. She wonders whether Ashari did, later.