villains everywhere

[marycatelli]

There has to be some number of villains, and the heroine has to know it within an order of magnitude or so.

She doesn't fight them, not directly, so much as regard them as a dreadful background she is trying to help others against.  But their antics are, indeed, dreadful for those caught in them.

So I have to figure out what they are doing even if she doesn't bother.