Yrael looks tempted as well. "It's very kind of you, Helen Magnus, but I think... we might need to work on keeping that low-profile. Even from people like you. We're intending to lie lower than the lying-low your organization can provide, but we'll pass on your regards to our mutual friend, all right?

Helen begins to say she understands and ask who this mutual friend is, but is interrupted by a burst of static from the intercom beside the gate, and a rough voice asking where in the world she'd disappeared to and why, relating that there were urgent reports coming in from the heads of the other Sanctuaries, asking for her -