Gretchen didn't seem nearly as surprised to see us as she would have if she'd been innocent. How telling was that? Heaps, in my books. Instead of arrogant disdain or even outright shock we'd returned, she stood slowly, as though a great weight rested on her shoulders and she struggled against it. She stopped when finally upright, watching from behind her desk while Jill grimly nodded.

"Dr. Latrell," she said, "you know why we're here?"

The facility manager just ...