"B-but how, Ed?" she queries, voice cracking just a little, "It-- goes all th'way up to-- Queen Medea. An' there's-- so many of us and-- not enough people to care."

That's part of what made it so easy for Shea to do this, after all. So many of the young men and women he was targeting were ones who didn't have any sort of support network to tug them out of the darkness.