Mina was good-natured enough to laugh. But Fortescue's concerns about a certain lack of scruples were very, very well founded.

"Back where I came from," she said. "Chicago. In the 1930s. We didn't have anything like this." She gestured to the communications device the scientists had so kindly given her. "Our only means of fast communication was through a network of ghouls that were put into place."

She had no idea how many of them had been willing and how many had been pressed into service. And she didn't want to know.

"Those ghouls were the reason why the Fae attacked our city."