“Ummmm.” She looked around at the three men as if contemplating escape, then she sagged in front of their eyes. “It explains how Gideon gets away with some of the things that he does. I always wondered how members of the Garden could just kind of… disappear, but if he had someone covering that all up, then who’d really care? Who’d be interested in investigating?”
“Wait,” Scars said. “Who disappeared?”
“Oh,” she said. “Well, I was only there for a year, so I only saw one person… go away, but the other women-servants told me about others. I only know about Lily.”
“Lily?” Scars asked gently. “You were her friend?”
“No.” Iris shook her head and now there were tears in her eyes. “I was her replacement.”
“OK,” Wolf said calmly, bells ringing in his head at the name ‘Lily’; Ice had told him
