Perhaps in part due to the holiday decorations themselves, as someone always in reds and greens would quite easily match this season's particular color scheme, or perhaps simply because she had a knack of fading into the background, but when Edgeworth was calling for her up the staircase, she was in the exact opposite direction — maybe twenty feet behind him, loitering in another doorway.

"Yes?" she replied, pulling herself out into the hallway.