I won't deny that it was risky; I knew that it was even then. But I knew that without understanding what the kidnapped had been through, there was no chance of understanding what truly lay at the bottom of the case.

[She holds her cup with both hands, elbows on the table, and glances up at the ripple in the air. It's not really alarming. She's seen weirder.]

Of course. Whatever you're willing to tell me. [But her 'real nature'? That's interesting. She raises an eyebrow in interrogation.]