Claire winced and shushed her, keeping her voice low.

"They're an organization of and for troubled people. Kind of like a troubled labor union, if labor unions had a paramilitary wing. . . . They're willing to go all out to protect the troubled from anything and anyone, which means they have a vested interest in Duke not activating. Which is fine, when Duke's back in Fandom, but when he's in town they get a little twitchy."