"Fantastic. The people are not Lost to every outsider and are in fact just a bit turned around. And if you had sworn them to secrecy, I imagine that'd be the first thing you'd tell me."

A long, deep, whistling breath.

"I'm not anyone of any rank, Erin. I don't know what to do to clean this up. I'm good at making phone calls and getting people where they need to be, and that's about it. But it can't... the cat can't stay out of this bag. I have-" a person to protect- "we have to corral this."