"A few here 'n there. Happens when you travel a lot." And travel to the often-unsavory places Amos travels to, because organized crime doesn't always end up in the clean tidy white-collar spaces of the world.

And monsters and demons tend to thrive on overall chaos.

He comes to a dead halt at a crossways path, a three-way divide. He tips his head one way, then the other, concentrating hard.