Nonexistent as well as useless? Yes, my dear, you're on the right track.

[Now that does have an edge.]

[China tilts her head and smiles, and it is more or less pleasant.]

So good to hear you're doing well, of course. Perhaps I will enrich your shelter with my presence, one of these days.

[Either she has a peculiar idea of what constitutes a threat or she never plans to show up.]