"Perhaps she could do with the field work. She's been cooped up in her office for all her working life even before Alice took charge of the force, and she has no idea how to fight these Shadowfang thugs. Perhaps if she's out here in the real world with some real incentive to get going, as the Shadowfangs aren't just going to spare her the fate of being eaten just because she's a rookie," she replies coldly.