"Oh, is that all," she says flatly, not angry or even annoyed. Mostly she's just doing her best not to freak out. She's Lois Lane, fearless in the face of any story, but this mess very much involves other people and their lives and she's never dealt with it well when her dogged journalism rubbed up against good people's hopes and dreams.

She walks over to the living room couch and lets herself collapse on it.

"How many were there? And did you notice anyone following you when you left?"