“He?” Mary asks. “Someone like you and Raven?”
“Oh, I'm not like Raven, not at all.”
“But you're both agents of the Forest, aren't you?” Fiona asks.
“We are indeed.”
“So what's the difference, how are you not like him.”
“How shall I put this?” Rose smiles with a wrinkle of scorn. “Raven is, shall we say, a front line operative, while I am more of a specialist.”
“And the agent on his way, is he like you or Raven?”
“Neither, actually. I have had to call in an Authority.”
