'You may be right, but if there's a message it doesn't seem to be getting through. Perhaps that the Stalker doesn't care enough about what they take to bother investing in proper surgical tools. For all I know perhaps it's collecting trophies.'
On the links between the victims, 'That they were all Scintillan highborn, were prolific holders of parties, and didn't have a secure enough resisdence to escape the Stalker's attentions.'