"He's a friend." Which is true. "I'm the new girl in town - I don't know the witch community as well as he does, but I knew that the Croatoan needs to be summoned. It doesn't just appear. So I decided to pick his brain, see if he might know a good place to start when looking for someone who wanted to expose someone's secrets and make them pay for them."

She tips her head to the side, turning to rest one hand on her hip, the other on the table she's leaning nearby. She's used to theatrics, and there's nothing about her statement that edges the truth.

"Magical secret societies aren't really my thing. But he seemed to think that they were yours."