"You've mentioned the monsters you've met, but I don't know if you've ever met... organized resistance, on a massive scale. We did. They have their pawns and fronts in multiple worlds; we established our own. A company."

Staccato and short; like a report.

"There are people, places and things that are important. They want to control or destroy them; we want to stop them. You mentioned consecrated ground. It's a little like that."

"We left the company to its own devices, to do the work we 'd set them, but when I came back, they had a place for me." At the top. "Some of what we do is very simple and mostly legal, and some of it--isn't."

"Just lately? I spent two weeks in an pretty ugly future. Now we're trying to figure out if we can stop it from happening."