That poor professor. Said hyperactive pilot just won't give the guy a break. She's threatened bodily harm against him twice, and she surrounds herself with absolutely awful people. One of her new "friends" is actually plotting to murder the professor because he doesn't like how he treated his in-laws, and the more benign of them are a goth and a hippie that nearly drove the poor man to tears by relentlessly making fun of his clothing and his charitable ambitions.
Seriously. For me, that woman--I think her name is "Doctor" something?--crossed the Moral Event Horizon in her very first appearance. She kidnapped her future boyfriend right out from a disciplinary council with his boss, destroying so much of his employer's personal property that her boyfriend's certain to never find stable employment with him again. She ruined the poor guy's life, and then roped him into a completely non-consensual relationship that's honestly too creepy for words.
I think so. It's been a while since I read it, but one of the wiser, more mentorly figures of the book is a con man who's somehow became the governor of a city by claiming to have magical powers. It is he that convinces the girl and her partners in crime to take up the hitman trade.