"That's why I get the best scoops and the occasional award, and others don't," she says, offhandedly--standard journalistic procedure, please--so offhandedly that it's pat, it's clear it's what she always says when this is brought up. It's a show of bravado that also neatly sidesteps the legitimate question of her safety that observation carries.

"So say I do take werewolves as a given." She does, at this point. "What doesn't add up?"