These are other names Maeve knows only in passing, from Gideon having mentioned them before, and she knows at least one of them is in Darrow already. Pal, she thinks, but she also doesn't know that many people.

"Why not?" she asks. "Why wouldn't he do that one?"

And why did Gideon have to do it in instead? Is that the thing that killed her? Maeve doesn't know that she wants these answers.