Iona says, "Well she wrote this letter to me for starters," but decides he maybe could have taken it off somebody else, if someone not naming names was feeling very determined to find him suspicious. She's only a little shorter than he is and now they're quite close. He fights the urge to take a giant step backwards. The Gallows security is tighter than he expected it to be.

"You could ask me something only I would know, if you like. Are you friends? What's your name?"