<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">Catherine's lips twitched in distaste at being called out on her skepticism -- but she wasn't surprised.  It was unlikely many law enforcement officers stepped into his office without a similar skepticism.  She didn't know many FBI agents or local LEOs that managed to keep hold of the kind of faith that allowed for belief in magic.  <br/>
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"I don't care if you use a totem pole of Hello Kitty as long as it gets the job done," she shot back.  His attitude irritated her for no particular reason.  She was here to ask him for help... she shouldn't be surprised that he was less than welcoming.  <br/>
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Abruptly, her strategy shifted.  She'd been going to restrict his knowledge, to lay out only the one locked-door murder.  Something in his manner... maybe his confidence... persuaded her than candor would earn her more respect that caginess.  "I've got at least four dead bodies," she said -- and though her words were blunt, they weren't said with the sharpness of someone intending to shock.  She was laying out the facts the same way she would to another FBI agent, or her former partner.  "Maybe a fifth, if I could get past a jurisdictional pissing match.  They don't fit a victim profile, or so my BAU tells me.  They don't appear to have anything in common... other than the fact that their hearts exploded outward of their chests, killing them instantly."  She leaned back in the chair, rubbing at the side of her neck.  "And one of them was in a room locked so tight it took NYPD SWAT half an hour to even figure out how to breach it, and explosives to pull it off.  So I got no clue how somebody got in, did whatever they did to make a heart explode, and then got out."  She tapped the fingers of one hand on the arm of the chair, a quick rat-a-tat-tat of irritation.  "Somebody I trust gave me your name -- said you'd solved the unsolveable before, without expecting a mention in the case file or a write up in the Times.  So... here I am."</span></span>