Not the local branch. And over a year ago. So this ... doesn't have anything to do with the attack she saw. Not that she saw very much of it, from her vantage point of hiding under a desk and praying for it to be over soon.

Then we got involved with the big W-H crowd, and then they didn't trust us anymore.

"So," still slowly, "how do they feel about you now? The Watchers' Council?"