"Exactly why I don't want any of you trying to approach her." Emma looks around the room. "If she decides you're a threat, either you'll get hurt or she will, or both. And neither is an acceptable risk."

"We shouldn't try to talk to her at all?" asks one young woman, halfway down the table.

"Not unless she talks to you first," says Emma. "And the important thing is to let me know immediately. I don't care if it's four in the morning; for this, you call me."