“He is still someone I would not take lightly.” Which is to say, The Wraith has an eye on him. It’s less she thinks that Marlo and the others might choose him over the numbers, than… long game things— put ideas into the officials heads, things trickle down the wires, into the public, into the hands of the paranoid and the radical and suddenly the work is being done without a finger lifted. She may be getting ahead of herself. But Jesper knows just as well as she does, they have to try to stay ahead of the rest. Kaz isn’t here, they have to think like him in his absence.

“Maybe some of the people with better magical aptitude could… sense something? Do… something with whatever keeps it in that dreamlike state?” It made sense in her head, but said out loud it sounds like the stuff of children’s fairytales.

She nods. “It is, but you never know what people came from— maybe they’re power hungry and want what Thorne has to offer. Maybe they were living in scraps and now they’re living in a bloody castle- why not stay? Have every whim attended to and all that? From what I’ve gathered, they’ve learned their lesson from that first round of escapees before. You catch more flies with honey.”