Well, a little bit of both. I am a private consultant to Scotland Yard. Not every case they encounter is so straight-forward. Sometimes it requires someone who is more familiar with less-than-usual occurrences and phenomena. That is when I step in, so to speak.

[Vastra is liking how Pepper seems to be picking up everything she's dropping. It makes it easier to know what to discuss and what to leave out.] Yes. When I was younger, I lived in an age before human dominance of the planet. But, well, nothing lasts forever as they say. I went into hibernation to avoid the end of the world and woke up about sixty-five million years later. I didn't expect to sleep quite so long, but there you have it. [Oh, this is one of her bodices, excellent.]