"I see."

For her it wasn't so much a matter of something here as not much to compete out there. She'd said once that with Raye gone she had nothing to lose, and that remained largely true.

And knowing what she did she couldn't help but speculate if one day she might find Raye standing, befuddled, in the Sorting Room. Low chances of that, to be sure, but there had already been clusters as with L and his associates, the Yagamis father and son...