Every time the news would report something about gargoyles, she would became irritated to the point of fearful as she attempted to point out any so-called good deeds done by the monsters were nothing more than a hoax created by the media for ratings, and her children were not to believe what was said about them, because they were dangerous, and the next moment change the channel as though to say the issue was closed.
Her family and friends often told her to calm down and let it go, for she was just over reacting in fear of something she did not truly understand. But she understood better than anyone, having seen the monsters up close and personal as they fought the Pack, almost attacking her children, and having attacked a city train she herself had been on just two nights before the destruction of a police station.
For a moment she began to believe them until she saw her son, Billy, bring home a children's book she was sure would give her a nervous breakdown. Some idiot author had written a book about gargoyles being blessed by angels and how they should be blessed by people because they were like people. But these were complete lies and she could not allow her children to be exposed to this kind of garbage. They are monsters out to harm people, especially innocent children, and nothing more.
In all of her fears and all of her efforts to protect her family the one person who seemed to truly understand was John. He told her of how his own brother had been attacked and nearly killed by a gargoyle, and ever since then he has sworn to do all he could to put a stop to the rampaging demons, to make sure they will never again harm another innocent human being. It was a cause he offered to others in his organization, to help him prevent the death or murders of innocent people, a cause she had been all too willing to accept in order to keep her children safe. She drew strength from his support as she came to him with her troubles, telling her she was doing the right thing in keeping the corrupted moral ambiguity of the more idiotic liberal people at bay from influencing her children's innocent and impressionable minds. She was protecting them from an ancient evil, and it was her moral and God given duty to fight against it.
Although she is indeed a God fearing and good Christian woman, she prayed every night God would protect her children from the dangerous monsters, and forgive her for her actions because she could not stand by and do nothing. She knew how volatile the Quarrymen's methods could be sometimes and how John's determination became all consuming, but he had made Nita and others understand that sacrifices had to be made if they were to succeed in stopping the monsters and saving the human race.
Every now and then she had a sense of self doubt and misgivings about the way John would carry out his plans for fighting the cause, such as how he twice kidnapped New York City police officers. Common sense told her that was going too far and the Quarrymen were already getting into enough trouble with the authorities in the city, when what they really needed was the police force's understanding and support. However, when he told her and others that these two specific cops were suspected 'gargoyle loving' collaborators, she began to think that maybe he knew what he was doing and it was for the salvation of humanity.
She recognized the first abducted police officer as the woman who had been undercover in a blond wig to take down three street thugs the same night she had been on the train when the gargoyles had attacked. She had been sure it was her imagination but the burnet haired police woman seemed to embrace the big purple monster as though they were old friends, or possibly something more. The very thought of it either way just turned her stomach.
Why would a sworn police officer throw her lot in with monsters when it was supposed to be her job to protect good decent people such as herself and her family? All Nita could think was how disappointed and resentful she felt towards that police woman, and perhaps now she will think twice before betraying her own kind now that John had her in custody.
Unfortunately, the police woman somehow escaped and the hidden Quarrymen base had to be abandoned after she had left that same night.
The second police officer to be apprehended by the Quarrymen was Detective Matthew Bluestone, the so-called leader of the so-called Gargoyle Task Force.
Though it bothered Nita greatly that John was willing to take such a dangerous risk, John had been right about one thing; the so called police Gargoyle Task Force was a joke, a complete waste of the honest taxpayers' money and an even worst waste of time if its members couldn't even do a proper job of catching a monster and protecting the city's citizens.
Unfortunately, Bluestone had somehow managed to escape Quarrymen custody as well, and in broad daylight. John had said that the creatures turned to stone during the day and that was why they only came out at night. So they could not have been involved with Bluestone's escape this time, unlike Maza's which took place in darkest night and most likely had the help of her monstrous 'friends.'
Yet despite both times of abducting these gargoyle sympathizing police officers, she knew it was still going too far and her common sense told her there had to be another way. She was sure of this because at least a few police officers had joined their cause, even if it meant they had to go against what they had been trained to do and how they were made to believe to up hold law and order.
One she became closely acquainted with was a young woman named Sara Jasper, who had joined the Quarrymen because she believed in their cause of protecting people from great dangers and they were not so different from what being an officer of the law was all about. Also one of John's top ranking men was a police officer named Jay Smith who always kept the Quarrymen leader appraised of any police doings in the city so as to be sure whatever action was taken in their Godly cause against a great evil did not completely cross any legal line, and they were always one step ahead of the authorities.
Yet despise these reassurances, part of her still felt it would be more productive to find a way of working *with* the police instead of antagonizing them while fighting a real threat to innocent people.
However, her faith continued to be further shaken in John Castaway a bit, though she refused to admit it to herself.
She was well aware that his determination to capture the gargoyles often bordered on obsession, which could be easily heard in his speeches to his supporters and in the way he organized raids on places that gargoyles were suspected to roost or who their 'sympathizers' were.
Many decent people began to leave the organization, saying that John was becoming so obsessed with 'vengeance' that he was beginning to sound more like a raving and ranting lunatic than an inspirational leader, as well as how the most recent campaigns for capturing gargoyles were becoming more and more violent. It was as though he was forgetting what the Quarrymen were really supposed to be fighting for, and more and more joiners were most often former street thugs or begrudged criminals, a situation that did disturb Nita.
Nita refused to believe any of this, simply attributing it to the great stress John has had to endure with the trauma he experienced with what the gargoyles did to his own family and having to lead a big organization. Also, though deserters were called cowards, she simply thought that they could no longer afford to make the great sacrifices it took to be part of the Quarrymen Organization and the cause it fought for.
Maybe some of it was true, but she was determined to fight all the way, even if it was just by passing out flyers, helping to organize campaign rallies, or attending meetings. She refused to do anything involving violence unless a gargoyle would actually attack her, her family, or any of her friends.