"Hardly stupid. You correctly identified from a broad map that I was investigating the geography around the base. You further attempted to find normal explanations for the strage occurrences. If--" if she hadn't been smuggled into the country-- "If I was not already acquainted with the work of Couriers and Verdigris House, and not myself a Nova Knight, I would well have believed you."

She hesitated. "The way you may be interested in is generalism."