"You might leave a note with a lied list in the infirmary, the security office and the staff hallway," Teja says. "Collect them again after, say, a month; who has not signed on then is not currently here."

Pause.

"And the garden was never Urquhart's; it is Dinah's, and she took over from the one who planted it, some obscure purple deity of magic by name of Asar-Suti. Urquhart merely helped with the heavy lifting and watering. I think Dinah wished him to to be tamed in some manner; he was, in the end."