"I'm always careful," she said. Which was more or less true. Depending on how you looked at things. Her occupation wasn't exactly for the wary, but she went about things as wisely as she could most of the time. And since she was so often so easily dismissed, she was Lysia's secret weapon.

"I think it's my turn to ask a question though," she added. "And I'd like to how know it is that you can just appear someplace. There's never any hint. Not even a smell."