For a moment nobody spoke. I inhaled deeply, noting that the room smelled faintly of cardboard and paint.Memory lived here, I thought. The early days. The impossible days. The days before lawyers started appearing.I moved toward the back wall and saw that a large corkboard still hung there.Most documents had been removed months ago. A few remained though. Documents like construction permits, volunteer schedules, community surveys.It was nothing alarming.Mara examined everything anyway. Methodically. Patiently.The way she approached witnesses.Ten minutes passed. Then fifteen.Nothing.I began feeling slightly ridiculous.Maybe Daniel had simply remembered wrong.Maybe Adrian Vale truly was a technician who happened to install temporary internet and disappear forever.Maybe.Then Lucian opened one of the storage cabinets."Seraphina,” he called out and something in his voice made me turn immediately.He was holding a tube. A rolled blueprint tube, rather. It was old, dusty. For
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