It was a better premise than some: A governing body outside of conventional time and space storing a set of problematic individuals that would cause some larger inconvenience if they were dead and gone altogether. But without a means to act on or test that theory - short of killing one of the residents and seeing what happened, she supposed - it did them little practical good here and now.

"If your doodles yield actionable results, tell me. You aren't the first arrival to willfully manipulate time and space, but your methods appear to be different than mine."