"I don't think they know," Mercy agrees, "but I think the answer's in Dogtown. That's the place that's been causing a mess of trouble around here well before we started turning up." She eats as he talks, gesturing with her fork to make her points.

"I know you're not the only one with things waiting at home. Good or ill. And I mean to get anyone who ain't a human somewhere they'll be safer than this place. You been followed by any of those vans lately?"

The witches aren't the most visibly inhuman members of ADI's non-human contingent, but they're still distinctly unusual to look at. Especially when Eda's in her owl form.