Neith reminds herself where she stands. She thinks of Emmett’s vile black scars. This is where he was killed, even if the order was not given in this room. It was given by committee and remotely, and these are the people who killed him. Pippa Keene was probably in charge of his welfare—as direct a treason as Neith can readily recall. And then, too, they are the people who hounded Diana Hunter through her own mind until she died, who did the same to Anna Magdalena back when Hunter was still in charge, and to how many others, too, along the way?