"the men responded by wrapping themselves closer around me" This reminds me of how my snakes will constrict around your arm if they're alarmed. Doesn't do much for my opinion of Anita's men, but that was pretty low already.

And omfg, the convoluted writing acrobatics LKH is performing so she can off Haven! Why? Was it just to prove to her anti-fans that she totes will kill off characters so there, look what you made her do?! Because the amount of effort she's going to in order to make it seems like Haven is seconds away from napalming the Circus (why didn't that happen?) is absolutely staggeringly baffling.