Neith does not respond, and after a moment Lönnrot carries on. "Oh, very well: ‘they.’ The eternal ‘they’ of the detective. The enemy. Peculators and poisoners. Steganography is all around you. You will go down where all the ladders start, and from that underworld you believe you will retrieve the truth of Diana Hunter, but you will find only ghosts and apparitions. If you bring them back with you into the waking world and do not test their reality too strictly, you will be promoted and you will move on to your next case. If you turn and question them, they will fade away into darkness and you will be lost upon your road. The journey is not guaranteed to end well. It is not guaranteed to end at all. Perhaps you will catch the killer. Or a killer. Perhaps there was no Hunter, no world until yesterday, and tomorrow there’ll be nothing once again. Forgive me: I mean only that you may wish to step away from the chase."