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00:00:00I did not mean to mark him.

00:00:02I was asleep, locked inside a nightmare I could not escape.

00:00:06And when my teeth found the curve of his neck in the dark, I did not know whose neck it

00:00:12was.

00:00:13I only knew that something was chasing me, and I had nothing left except my own desperate body.

00:00:21I woke to silence, to a room I did not recognize,

00:00:25to the most dangerous man in the city lying very still beside me,

00:00:31his black hair across the pillow, his eyes watching the ceiling,

00:00:35a fresh mark on his neck, my mark,

00:00:39and the slow, certain realization that I had just accidentally claimed the head of the Vero Syndicate as my alpha.

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00:01:01My name is Fen Calloway, and I have been making catastrophic mistakes since the day I was born.

00:01:08That is not self-pity. It is a documented pattern.

00:01:13At eight years old, I accidentally released my grandmother's prize canary

00:01:18because I thought it looked lonely and wanted to see the sky.

00:01:21At sixteen, I failed my driver's test four times.

00:01:26Not because I could not drive,

00:01:28but because I had a habit of catastrophizing every possible outcome

00:01:33before I had even turned the ignition.

00:01:36At twenty-two, I enrolled in a graduate program for archival history

00:01:41because I genuinely believed that understanding the past

00:01:45would somehow give me more control over the present.

00:01:49It had not.

00:01:51But I had become very good at cataloging disasters.

00:01:56The disaster that brought me to the Vero compound

00:01:59began the way most of my disasters begin,

00:02:02with the best possible intentions

00:02:04and no exit strategy whatsoever.

00:02:08I was an omega, late presenting,

00:02:11the kind that threw off biological assessments for years

00:02:14before the markers finally resolved.

00:02:17I had spent most of my adult life

00:02:19in the comfortable ambiguity of an undetermined secondary status,

00:02:24which suited me well enough.

00:02:26I worked in a private archive on the west side of Kastavar City,

00:02:29organizing the personal papers of families wealthy enough

00:02:32to pay someone to arrange their history in acid-free folders.

00:02:37It was quiet work, exact work,

00:02:40the kind that rewarded patience and attention to detail

00:02:43and punished nothing except carelessness, which I was not.

00:02:48I had been contracted to organize

00:02:50the Vero family's private archive six weeks ago.

00:02:54I want to be very clear about what I understood

00:02:57when I accepted the contract.

00:02:59I understood that the Vero name carried weight in Kastavar City

00:03:03in the way that certain buildings carry weight,

00:03:05not because of what they are made of,

00:03:07but because of what they are capable of doing if they fall.

00:03:12I understood that the family had business interests

00:03:15that extended beyond the ledgers and correspondence

00:03:17I would be cataloging.

00:03:19I understood, in the abstract way,

00:03:22that a person understands weather patterns

00:03:25in a city they have never visited,

00:03:26that the man who ran the family's current operations

00:03:30was named Corvin Varro,

00:03:32that he was an alpha,

00:03:34that he was 34 years old,

00:03:36and that he was the reason certain conversations

00:03:39in Kastavar City happened in whispers,

00:03:42regardless of how empty the room appeared to be.

00:03:45What I did not understand

00:03:47was that accepting the contract

00:03:49would require me to live on the compound

00:03:51during the work.

00:03:52The family archivist who hired me

00:03:55had presented this as a standard arrangement

00:03:57for sensitive materials.

00:03:59I had nodded and signed the terms

00:04:02without reading the clause

00:04:03about residential requirements,

00:04:05which is exactly the kind of carelessness

00:04:08that I otherwise pride myself on avoiding,

00:04:11but which I seem capable of performing

00:04:14exclusively in the moments that matter most.

00:04:17On the first day,

00:04:19a car arrived at my apartment.

00:04:21A very large man named Piotr

00:04:24held the door open without speaking.

00:04:26I got in with my laptop bag

00:04:28and my reference materials

00:04:29and the quiet internal monologue

00:04:32of a person who has made a decision

00:04:34and is managing the very specific anxiety

00:04:37that comes from understanding

00:04:38it is too late to unmake it.

00:04:41The compound was on the northern edge of the city,

00:04:44past the district where the architecture changed

00:04:47from glass and steel

00:04:48to stone and wrought iron,

00:04:50and the streets narrowed in the way of things

00:04:52that were built before the concept of traffic

00:04:55had been fully considered.

00:04:57The building itself was a former manor

00:05:00that had been thoroughly renovated

00:05:02in the way that people renovate things

00:05:03when money is not a constraint.

00:05:06All the surfaces that should be warm

00:05:09were warm.

00:05:10All the spaces that should be vast

00:05:12were vast.

00:05:14The archive room was on the second floor,

00:05:17north-facing windows,

00:05:18long tables,

00:05:20proper humidity control.

00:05:22I spent the first three days in the archive

00:05:25and spoke to no one

00:05:27except the family archivist,

00:05:29an older beta woman named Roselle,

00:05:31who communicated primarily

00:05:33through handwritten notes

00:05:35and had opinions about acid-free tissue paper

00:05:38that I found genuinely interesting.

00:05:41On the fourth day,

00:05:42I met Corvin Varro.

00:05:44He came to the archive room

00:05:46in the late afternoon

00:05:48when the light through the north windows

00:05:50had gone the particular pale gold

00:05:52of early autumn.

00:05:53He came alone,

00:05:55which Roselle had told me was unusual,

00:05:58and he stood in the doorway for a moment

00:06:00before entering,

00:06:02which gave me approximately four seconds

00:06:04to observe him

00:06:05before I had to behave

00:06:07as though I had not been observing him.

00:06:10He was taller than I had expected,

00:06:13not dramatically so,

00:06:15but tall in the way

00:06:16that people who have always been tall

00:06:18move through spaces,

00:06:20without accounting for ceilings,

00:06:22without the self-consciousness

00:06:24of someone who has learned

00:06:25they take up more room

00:06:26than the average person expects.

00:06:29Black hair,

00:06:31the kind that absorbed light

00:06:32rather than reflected it.

00:06:34Dark eyes

00:06:35that processed information

00:06:37at a rate I could observe

00:06:39even from across a room.

00:06:41He moved like someone

00:06:42for whom the world

00:06:43had always rearranged itself in advance,

00:06:46not because he demanded it,

00:06:48but because the world

00:06:49had simply learned

00:06:50that this was more efficient.

00:06:52He looked at the organized stacks

00:06:55of papers on the long table.

00:06:57He looked at the coded indexing system

00:06:59I had begun building on the wall.

00:07:02He looked at me.

00:07:04You have organized this

00:07:05by thematic cluster

00:07:07rather than chronological order,

00:07:09he said.

00:07:10His voice was lower

00:07:11than I had expected.

00:07:13Not performed low,

00:07:15just the natural register

00:07:17of someone who never had reason

00:07:19to raise it.

00:07:21Provisional clustering,

00:07:22I said.

00:07:22Once I have a complete picture

00:07:25of the collection,

00:07:25I will build a finding aid

00:07:27that accommodates both approaches.

00:07:29Thematic is more useful

00:07:31for active reference.

00:07:32Chronological is more useful

00:07:34for historical interpretation.

00:07:36The two are not mutually exclusive.

00:07:39He considered this for a moment

00:07:41with the focus of someone

00:07:43who is actually thinking

00:07:44about what was just said

00:07:46rather than waiting

00:07:47for the sentence to end

00:07:48so they can respond.

00:07:50How long will you need

00:07:52the full picture,

00:07:53he asked.

00:07:54Six weeks at the current pace,

00:07:56I said.

00:07:57Possibly less

00:07:58if the mid-century correspondence

00:08:00is as orderly

00:08:01as the pre-war material.

00:08:03Your family was more systematic

00:08:05before 1950.

00:08:07A brief pause.

00:08:10My grandmother,

00:08:11he said.

00:08:12She kept everything.

00:08:14I could tell,

00:08:16I said.

00:08:16The gaps appear

00:08:18after her death.

00:08:19He looked at me

00:08:20for one more moment,

00:08:22then he nodded once

00:08:24and left.

00:08:25That was the entirety

00:08:27of our first conversation.

00:08:29I thought about it

00:08:30for an embarrassingly

00:08:32long time afterward,

00:08:34which told me something

00:08:35about the state

00:08:36of my social life

00:08:37that I preferred

00:08:38not to examine directly.

00:08:41He came back

00:08:42three days later

00:08:43and two days after that

00:08:45and then

00:08:46every evening

00:08:47for the following week,

00:08:49always in the late afternoon

00:08:51when the light changed,

00:08:53always alone.

00:08:54And the conversations

00:08:56were brief

00:08:56and precise

00:08:57and somehow managed

00:08:59to be about the archive

00:09:01and also about

00:09:02considerably more

00:09:03than the archive.

00:09:05He asked questions

00:09:06that were genuinely curious

00:09:08rather than

00:09:08performatively interested.

00:09:10He had opinions

00:09:12about his family's history

00:09:13that were neither romantic

00:09:15nor cynical,

00:09:16but specific.

00:09:18The kind of opinions

00:09:19that come from

00:09:20having actually thought

00:09:21about something

00:09:22rather than having decided

00:09:24how one ought

00:09:25to feel about it.

00:09:27I began to find myself

00:09:29staying slightly later

00:09:30in the evenings

00:09:31in case he came,

00:09:33which was the kind

00:09:34of behavioral modification

00:09:36I recognized

00:09:37as significant

00:09:38and chose

00:09:40not to examine

00:09:41too closely.

00:09:42On the twelfth day

00:09:44of my residency,

00:09:45the first thing

00:09:46went wrong.

00:09:47I was working late.

00:09:49Everyone in the compound

00:09:51had their own rhythms

00:09:52and I had learned

00:09:53most of them

00:09:54by osmosis

00:09:55over the preceding

00:09:56week and a half.

00:09:57The compound

00:09:59operated on the schedule

00:10:00of a household

00:10:01that has never

00:10:02entirely separated

00:10:03work from home,

00:10:04which meant

00:10:05that certain hours

00:10:06were always active

00:10:08and certain hours

00:10:09went quiet

00:10:10in a particular way

00:10:11that felt less

00:10:12like absence

00:10:13and more like

00:10:14held breath.

00:10:16I was in the archive room

00:10:18at nearly midnight,

00:10:19cross-referencing

00:10:20two sets of correspondence

00:10:22that appeared to be

00:10:23about the same

00:10:23business arrangement

00:10:24described from

00:10:26incompatible perspectives,

00:10:28which was exactly

00:10:29the kind of puzzle

00:10:30that made archival work

00:10:32feel less like a job

00:10:33and more like

00:10:35an argument

00:10:36with the past.

00:10:37I had not eaten

00:10:39since mid-afternoon.

00:10:40I had not noticed

00:10:42not eating

00:10:43since mid-afternoon,

00:10:44which is a condition

00:10:46I am prone to

00:10:47and which my body

00:10:49eventually addresses

00:10:50by reminding me

00:10:51forcefully.

00:10:53I went downstairs

00:10:54to find the kitchen.

00:10:56The compound's kitchen

00:10:57was large

00:10:58and had the particular

00:10:59neatness of a space

00:11:01where professional staff

00:11:02kept order during the day

00:11:04and which returned

00:11:05to a slightly more

00:11:07human state

00:11:08after hours.

00:11:09There were remnants

00:11:10of an evening meal

00:11:11still in covered dishes,

00:11:13and I was helping myself

00:11:15to what turned out

00:11:16to be an excellent

00:11:17potato gratin

00:11:18when I became aware

00:11:20that I was not alone

00:11:21in the kitchen.

00:11:22Corvin Vero

00:11:23was sitting at the far end

00:11:25of the long kitchen table

00:11:26with a glass of

00:11:27something amber

00:11:28and several open folders

00:11:30spread in front of him.

00:11:32He looked up.

00:11:33There is more

00:11:34in the warming drawer,

00:11:35he said.

00:11:36The protein.

00:11:38I am fine with this,

00:11:39I said,

00:11:40which was true.

00:11:41He returned

00:11:42to his folders.

00:11:43I sat at the opposite

00:11:45end of the table

00:11:46because it seemed

00:11:47strange to stand

00:11:48and eat in front

00:11:49of someone

00:11:49who was working.

00:11:51We sat

00:11:52in what turned out

00:11:53to be an entirely

00:11:54companionable silence

00:11:56for approximately

00:11:57twenty minutes,

00:11:58which should have

00:11:59been awkward

00:12:00and was not,

00:12:02which I noted

00:12:03as relevant data

00:12:04and filed away

00:12:05without examining.

00:12:07That became

00:12:08a pattern, too.

00:12:10Evening hours

00:12:11in the kitchen,

00:12:12an hour most nights,

00:12:14sometimes two.

00:12:15Folders and cross-references

00:12:17and the kind

00:12:18of conversation

00:12:19that starts practical

00:12:21and ends somewhere

00:12:22it did not intend

00:12:23to go.

00:12:24I learned things

00:12:26during those hours

00:12:27that no amount

00:12:28of reading the Vero

00:12:29family archive

00:12:30would have told me.

00:12:32I learned that

00:12:33he had spent

00:12:33two years

00:12:34in his early twenties

00:12:35in a different city

00:12:36under circumstances

00:12:37he described

00:12:38only obliquely

00:12:40and that those years

00:12:42had produced

00:12:42the quality

00:12:43of watchfulness

00:12:44that I had initially

00:12:45read as coldness

00:12:47and which I now

00:12:48understood

00:12:49was something else

00:12:50entirely.

00:12:51I learned

00:12:52that he kept

00:12:53a second set

00:12:53of books

00:12:54on the kitchen table

00:12:55not because

00:12:56he distrusted

00:12:57his accountants

00:12:58but because

00:12:59he found

00:12:59the process

00:13:00of checking

00:13:00numbers himself

00:13:01clarifying

00:13:02in the way

00:13:03that I found

00:13:04the archive

00:13:05clarifying,

00:13:06the satisfaction

00:13:07of making order

00:13:08from material

00:13:09that resisted it.

00:13:11I learned

00:13:12that he took

00:13:13his coffee

00:13:13without sugar

00:13:14in the morning

00:13:15and with a half

00:13:16measure of

00:13:17something sweet

00:13:18late at night

00:13:18which he poured

00:13:20from a small

00:13:21bottle he kept

00:13:21in the cabinet

00:13:22beside the window

00:13:23and which he

00:13:25never explained

00:13:25and which I

00:13:27never asked about

00:13:28because some

00:13:29details are more

00:13:30valuable as

00:13:31small private

00:13:32mysteries

00:13:33than as

00:13:34answered questions.

00:13:35On the third

00:13:36night he asked

00:13:37me why I had

00:13:38chosen archival

00:13:39history specifically

00:13:40and I told him

00:13:41the truth

00:13:42which was that

00:13:43I found the past

00:13:44less frightening

00:13:45than the present

00:13:46because nothing

00:13:47in the past

00:13:48could still be

00:13:48changed

00:13:49and there was

00:13:50something stabilizing

00:13:51about working

00:13:52with things

00:13:52that had already

00:13:53resolved.

00:13:55He was quiet

00:13:56for a moment

00:13:56after that

00:13:57and if the past

00:13:59reveals something

00:14:00that changes

00:14:00how you understand

00:14:01the present

00:14:02he said

00:14:03then at least

00:14:04you understand

00:14:05it

00:14:05I said

00:14:06even if you

00:14:07cannot change

00:14:08it.

00:14:09He looked

00:14:10at me

00:14:10with those

00:14:11dark eyes

00:14:11for a beat

00:14:12longer

00:14:12than the

00:14:13conversation

00:14:13strictly

00:14:14required

00:14:14then he

00:14:16said

00:14:16good night

00:14:17Fenn

00:14:18and closed

00:14:19his folders

00:14:19and left.

00:14:21He had not

00:14:22used my name

00:14:23before that.

00:14:24I sat

00:14:25in the kitchen

00:14:26for another

00:14:26ten minutes

00:14:27without moving.

00:14:29I was in

00:14:30serious trouble

00:14:31and had been

00:14:32for at least

00:14:32a week

00:14:33and had been

00:14:34successfully

00:14:34avoiding this

00:14:35conclusion

00:14:36until the

00:14:37precise moment

00:14:38that my name

00:14:39in his voice

00:14:40made avoiding

00:14:41it no longer

00:14:42possible.

00:14:44The second

00:14:45thing that went

00:14:45wrong happened

00:14:46on the nineteenth

00:14:47day

00:14:47which was

00:14:48the night

00:14:49of the storm.

00:14:50Cast of our

00:14:51city gets

00:14:52weather that

00:14:52behaves as

00:14:53though it

00:14:53has a personal

00:14:54grievance.

00:14:55The autumn

00:14:56storms come in

00:14:57from the north

00:14:57with the speed

00:14:58and conviction

00:14:59of something

00:15:00that has made

00:15:00a decision

00:15:01and when

00:15:02they arrive

00:15:02the city

00:15:03goes briefly

00:15:04and completely

00:15:05dark

00:15:06in the specific

00:15:07way of places

00:15:08that have not

00:15:09fully modernized

00:15:10their infrastructure

00:15:11despite appearances

00:15:12to the contrary.

00:15:14This is to say

00:15:15that on the

00:15:16nineteenth evening

00:15:17a storm arrived

00:15:18at approximately

00:15:19two in the morning

00:15:20and took the compound's

00:15:21primary power

00:15:22power with it.

00:15:23The backup

00:15:24systems came

00:15:25online within

00:15:26thirty seconds

00:15:27but thirty seconds

00:15:29is long enough

00:15:29for certain

00:15:30things to happen.

00:15:31What happened

00:15:32in those thirty seconds

00:15:33was that I woke

00:15:34up inside a nightmare

00:15:35I had been having

00:15:36since I was

00:15:37nineteen years old

00:15:38the one where

00:15:39the archive is burning

00:15:40and I cannot save

00:15:41the papers fast enough

00:15:43and when the lights

00:15:45went out

00:15:45and the storm

00:15:46hit the windows

00:15:47all at once

00:15:47my sleeping brain

00:15:49lost the thin

00:15:50boundary between

00:15:51the nightmare

00:15:52and reality.

00:15:54I need to explain

00:15:55the living arrangements

00:15:56on the compound.

00:15:57There were twelve

00:15:58rooms in the

00:15:59residential wing

00:16:00eleven of them

00:16:01were occupied

00:16:02by various members

00:16:03of the household

00:16:04staff

00:16:04and associates

00:16:06who lived on site.

00:16:08Mine was on the

00:16:09third floor

00:16:09at the end

00:16:10of a hallway

00:16:11which had been

00:16:12presented to me

00:16:12as the quietest room

00:16:14and which I had

00:16:15accepted without question.

00:16:17What I had not known

00:16:19and what Roselle

00:16:20had simply not mentioned

00:16:21possibly because

00:16:22it seemed obvious

00:16:23to everyone else

00:16:24was that the room

00:16:26at the end

00:16:26of the third floor

00:16:27hallway

00:16:28shared a wall

00:16:29with Corvin Vero's room.

00:16:31Not just a wall.

00:16:33In the original

00:16:34floor plan of the manor

00:16:35before the renovation

00:16:37those two rooms

00:16:38had been a single

00:16:39large room.

00:16:41The renovation

00:16:42had divided them

00:16:43but the door

00:16:44between them

00:16:44a heavy

00:16:45connecting door

00:16:46set into the

00:16:47shared wall

00:16:48had been sealed

00:16:49rather than removed.

00:16:52Sealed

00:16:52with a bolt

00:16:53on my side.

00:16:55I had not noticed

00:16:56it for nineteen days

00:16:58because it was set

00:16:59into the wall

00:17:00beside the wardrobe

00:17:01and blended

00:17:02into the paneling.

00:17:03On the night

00:17:04of the storm

00:17:05in the thirty seconds

00:17:06of darkness

00:17:07inside the nightmare

00:17:09that had the archive

00:17:10burning

00:17:10and the smoke

00:17:11getting into my eyes

00:17:12my dream self

00:17:14found the door

00:17:15and understood it

00:17:16as an exit

00:17:17and did the thing

00:17:19that dream logic

00:17:20does

00:17:20which is to act

00:17:21without the moderating

00:17:23influence

00:17:23of consequence.

00:17:25I unbolted

00:17:27the door.

00:17:28I walked

00:17:29through it

00:17:29into the darkness

00:17:30on the other side.

00:17:32In the nightmare

00:17:33I was still running.

00:17:35In reality

00:17:36I was moving

00:17:37through a room

00:17:38I could not see

00:17:40following the instinct

00:17:41that nightmare running

00:17:43produces

00:17:43which is to find

00:17:45something solid

00:17:46to hold on to.

00:17:47What I found

00:17:48was the edge

00:17:49of a bed.

00:17:50What was in the bed

00:17:51was Corvin Vero.

00:17:53The nightmare

00:17:54peaked

00:17:54at that moment.

00:17:55The burning archive

00:17:56the smoke

00:17:57the sound

00:17:58of something falling.

00:18:00My sleeping brain

00:18:01performed its final

00:18:02desperate act.

00:18:04I bit the curve

00:18:05of his neck

00:18:05where the shoulder

00:18:06meets the throat

00:18:07the place

00:18:08that Omega Biology

00:18:09has always known

00:18:10is where

00:18:11a claiming mark

00:18:12goes

00:18:12and I held on.

00:18:15He went

00:18:16very still.

00:18:18The lights

00:18:19came back on.

00:18:20I was not

00:18:21asleep anymore.

00:18:22I was kneeling

00:18:23on the edge

00:18:24of Corvin Vero's bed

00:18:25in the middle

00:18:26of the night

00:18:26in the middle

00:18:27of a storm

00:18:28my hands

00:18:29gripping his shoulder

00:18:30my teeth

00:18:31against his neck

00:18:33and he was lying

00:18:34perfectly still

00:18:35looking at the ceiling

00:18:37with the expression

00:18:38of someone

00:18:39who was assembling

00:18:39information

00:18:40very carefully

00:18:42before they respond

00:18:43to it.

00:18:44I released him

00:18:45and sat back

00:18:46on my heels

00:18:47and the horror

00:18:49of what I had just done

00:18:50arrived in totality

00:18:52all at once

00:18:54without the mercy

00:18:55of arriving in stages.

00:18:58I am so sorry

00:19:00I said

00:19:01my voice came out

00:19:02completely steady

00:19:04which was the most

00:19:05unreasonable thing

00:19:06my body had done

00:19:07in a series

00:19:08of unreasonable things.

00:19:10I was asleep

00:19:11I did not know

00:19:13where I was

00:19:14I do not know

00:19:15what I was thinking

00:19:16I was not thinking

00:19:18I was not awake

00:19:20I am profoundly

00:19:22genuinely

00:19:25catastrophically

00:19:26sorry

00:19:27he turned his head

00:19:28and looked at me

00:19:29his dark eyes

00:19:31were very calm

00:19:33you have a recurring

00:19:34nightmare

00:19:35he said

00:19:36I looked at him

00:19:38yes

00:19:39I said

00:19:40the archive

00:19:42he said

00:19:44I blinked

00:19:45you have mentioned

00:19:47it twice

00:19:47during the evening

00:19:48conversations

00:19:49he said

00:19:50once when I asked

00:19:52why you keep

00:19:53the temperature

00:19:53controlled

00:19:54in the south section

00:19:55and once

00:19:56when we were discussing

00:19:57the 19th century

00:19:58correspondence

00:19:59you said fires

00:20:01were your primary

00:20:02concern

00:20:02he paused

00:20:04I heard you

00:20:05in the hallway

00:20:06three nights ago

00:20:07you were speaking

00:20:08in your sleep

00:20:10I processed this

00:20:12you knew

00:20:13I walked

00:20:14in my sleep

00:20:14I said

00:20:16I suspected

00:20:17it was possible

00:20:18he said

00:20:19and you did not

00:20:20tell me

00:20:21there was a

00:20:21connecting door

00:20:22I said

00:20:23he was quiet

00:20:25for a moment

00:20:26no

00:20:27he said

00:20:27I did not

00:20:30I looked at him

00:20:31at the mark

00:20:32on his neck

00:20:32which was

00:20:33unmistakably

00:20:34what it was

00:20:35at his expression

00:20:36which was contained

00:20:38in the specific way

00:20:39of someone

00:20:39who is being

00:20:40very careful

00:20:41about something

00:20:43I did not

00:20:44plan this

00:20:45I said

00:20:46and I need you

00:20:47to understand

00:20:48that absolutely

00:20:49this was not

00:20:51calculated

00:20:51I am an archivist

00:20:53I do not

00:20:54have

00:20:55strategies

00:20:57I had a nightmare

00:20:58and I walked

00:20:59through a door

00:21:00I did not know

00:21:01was there

00:21:02and I am

00:21:03mortified

00:21:04beyond anything

00:21:05I am able

00:21:06to articulate

00:21:08I know

00:21:09he said

00:21:10he sat up

00:21:12the storm

00:21:13was still

00:21:13hitting the windows

00:21:14he reached

00:21:16for the lamp

00:21:16on the bedside

00:21:17table

00:21:17and turned it on

00:21:19which made

00:21:19the room

00:21:20a warmer

00:21:21and more

00:21:21human space

00:21:22than the overhead

00:21:23light from the

00:21:24backup system

00:21:25had allowed

00:21:26he looked

00:21:27at the mark

00:21:27for a moment

00:21:28then he looked

00:21:29at me

00:21:31are you

00:21:32all right

00:21:32he said

00:21:33I stared

00:21:35at him

00:21:36I just

00:21:38accidentally

00:21:38marked you

00:21:39I said

00:21:41yes

00:21:42he said

00:21:43are you

00:21:44all right

00:21:46something

00:21:47in the way

00:21:47he said

00:21:48it

00:21:48not the

00:21:49words

00:21:49exactly

00:21:50but the

00:21:51specific

00:21:51weight

00:21:51he placed

00:21:52on them

00:21:53the genuine

00:21:54orientation

00:21:55of the

00:21:55question

00:21:56toward me

00:21:56rather than

00:21:57toward himself

00:21:58made something

00:21:59in my chest

00:22:00do a thing

00:22:01I was not

00:22:02prepared for

00:22:04I am

00:22:05fine

00:22:05I said

00:22:06I am

00:22:07horrified

00:22:08and I am

00:22:10fine

00:22:11then we

00:22:12will deal

00:22:13with the rest

00:22:13of it

00:22:14in the morning

00:22:14he said

00:22:15his voice

00:22:16was even

00:22:17not dismissive

00:22:19just

00:22:19settled

00:22:20as if

00:22:21this was

00:22:22a problem

00:22:22that had

00:22:23a solution

00:22:23and would

00:22:24be approached

00:22:25as such

00:22:25he reached

00:22:27across

00:22:27and tugged

00:22:28the corner

00:22:29of the blanket

00:22:29free

00:22:30and held

00:22:30it out

00:22:31toward me

00:22:31with the

00:22:32gesture

00:22:32of someone

00:22:33offering

00:22:33the only

00:22:34practical

00:22:35solution

00:22:35available

00:22:37I looked

00:22:37at the

00:22:38blanket

00:22:39I cannot

00:22:40stay in

00:22:41your room

00:22:41I said

00:22:43your room

00:22:44lost power

00:22:44he said

00:22:45the archive

00:22:46temperature

00:22:47controls

00:22:47are down

00:22:48you will

00:22:49want to

00:22:49check it

00:22:50in the

00:22:50morning

00:22:50there is

00:22:51no point

00:22:51in going

00:22:52back

00:22:52to a

00:22:52dark

00:22:53room

00:22:53when the

00:22:53storm

00:22:54will

00:22:54wake

00:22:54you

00:22:54again

00:22:55anyway

00:22:56he said

00:22:57it

00:22:57with the

00:22:58same

00:22:58practical

00:22:59tone

00:22:59he used

00:23:00in the

00:23:00evenings

00:23:00over

00:23:01folders

00:23:01and

00:23:02correspondence

00:23:02which

00:23:03was

00:23:04both

00:23:04more

00:23:04unsettling

00:23:05and

00:23:06more

00:23:06calming

00:23:07than

00:23:07any

00:23:08other

00:23:08tone

00:23:08he

00:23:08might

00:23:09have

00:23:09used

00:23:10I

00:23:11took

00:23:11the

00:23:11blanket

00:23:11I

00:23:12sat

00:23:12against

00:23:13the

00:23:13headboard

00:23:13on the

00:23:13far

00:23:14side

00:23:14of

00:23:14the

00:23:14bed

00:23:14with

00:23:14the

00:23:15blanket

00:23:15around

00:23:15my

00:23:15shoulders

00:23:16and

00:23:16he

00:23:16lay

00:23:17back

00:23:17down

00:23:17and

00:23:18turned

00:23:18off

00:23:18the

00:23:18lamp

00:23:18and

00:23:19the

00:23:19storm

00:23:19continued

00:23:20its

00:23:20business

00:23:21outside

00:23:21the

00:23:21window

00:23:23I

00:23:24did

00:23:24not

00:23:24sleep

00:23:24again

00:23:25that

00:23:25night

00:23:26I

00:23:26am

00:23:26reasonably

00:23:27certain

00:23:27he

00:23:28did

00:23:28not

00:23:28either

00:23:30in

00:23:30the

00:23:30morning

00:23:31I

00:23:31went

00:23:31back

00:23:31through

00:23:32the

00:23:32connecting

00:23:32door

00:23:32to

00:23:33my

00:23:33own

00:23:33room

00:23:33and

00:23:34stood

00:23:34in

00:23:34the

00:23:34bathroom

00:23:35for

00:23:35a

00:23:35long

00:23:35time

00:23:36staring

00:23:36at

00:23:37my

00:23:37reflection

00:23:37and

00:23:38conducting

00:23:39a

00:23:39very

00:23:40comprehensive

00:23:40review

00:23:41of

00:23:41everything

00:23:42I

00:23:42had

00:23:43done

00:23:43wrong

00:23:43over

00:23:44the

00:23:44past

00:23:4419

00:23:45days

00:23:45and

00:23:47specifically

00:23:47everything

00:23:48I had

00:23:49done

00:23:49wrong

00:23:49in the

00:23:50last

00:23:50four

00:23:50hours

00:23:52the

00:23:53mark

00:23:53on his

00:23:53neck

00:23:54was

00:23:54not

00:23:54erasable

00:23:55that

00:23:56was

00:23:57the

00:23:57central

00:23:57fact

00:23:58around

00:23:58which

00:23:58everything

00:23:59else

00:23:59arranged

00:24:00itself

00:24:00Omega

00:24:02claiming

00:24:02marks

00:24:03when placed

00:24:04during

00:24:04genuine

00:24:05biological

00:24:05response

00:24:06even

00:24:07nightmare

00:24:08induced

00:24:08biological

00:24:09response

00:24:10carried

00:24:10a

00:24:11biochemical

00:24:11signature

00:24:12the

00:24:13body

00:24:13does

00:24:14not

00:24:14distinguish

00:24:14between

00:24:15intentional

00:24:16and

00:24:16unintentional

00:24:17the

00:24:18biology

00:24:19simply

00:24:19registers

00:24:20the

00:24:20act

00:24:20and

00:24:21responds

00:24:21accordingly

00:24:22he

00:24:23would

00:24:23have

00:24:23been

00:24:24scenting

00:24:24my

00:24:24pheromones

00:24:25since

00:24:26I

00:24:26walked

00:24:26through

00:24:26that

00:24:27door

00:24:27his

00:24:28alpha

00:24:29biology

00:24:29would

00:24:30have

00:24:30registered

00:24:30the

00:24:30mark

00:24:31these

00:24:32were

00:24:32facts

00:24:33that

00:24:33existed

00:24:34independent

00:24:34of what

00:24:35either

00:24:35of us

00:24:36wanted

00:24:36them

00:24:36to

00:24:37mean

00:24:38I

00:24:38was

00:24:39still

00:24:39standing

00:24:39in the

00:24:40bathroom

00:24:40conducting

00:24:41this

00:24:41review

00:24:41when

00:24:42someone

00:24:42knocked

00:24:43on

00:24:43my

00:24:43door

00:24:44I

00:24:45had

00:24:45been

00:24:45standing

00:24:45there

00:24:46long

00:24:46enough

00:24:46for

00:24:47the

00:24:47mirror

00:24:47to

00:24:47stop

00:24:47fogging

00:24:48from

00:24:48the

00:24:48shower

00:24:49I

00:24:49had

00:24:49run

00:24:49to

00:24:50clear

00:24:50my

00:24:50head

00:24:50which

00:24:51told

00:24:52me

00:24:52I

00:24:52had

00:24:52been

00:24:53standing

00:24:53there

00:24:53for

00:24:53a

00:24:54considerable

00:24:54amount

00:24:55of

00:24:55time

00:24:56the

00:24:56reflection

00:24:57looking

00:24:57back

00:24:58at

00:24:58me

00:24:58was

00:24:58not

00:24:59noticeably

00:24:59different

00:25:00from

00:25:00my

00:25:00usual

00:25:01reflection

00:25:01pale

00:25:02hair

00:25:03the

00:25:03particular

00:25:04shade

00:25:04of

00:25:04blonde

00:25:05that

00:25:05looked

00:25:05almost

00:25:06colorless

00:25:06in

00:25:07bathroom

00:25:07light

00:25:07the

00:25:08kind

00:25:09of

00:25:09face

00:25:09that

00:25:09had

00:25:09spent

00:25:10most

00:25:10of

00:25:10its

00:25:10life

00:25:11being

00:25:11described

00:25:12as

00:25:12fine

00:25:13rather

00:25:13than

00:25:14striking

00:25:14which

00:25:15I

00:25:15had

00:25:16never

00:25:16minded

00:25:16because

00:25:17striking

00:25:18faces

00:25:18attract

00:25:19more

00:25:19attention

00:25:19than

00:25:20I

00:25:20had

00:25:21ever

00:25:21wanted

00:25:21an

00:25:23archivist's

00:25:24face

00:25:24the

00:25:25face

00:25:25of

00:25:25someone

00:25:25who

00:25:26reads

00:25:26primary

00:25:26sources

00:25:27and

00:25:28argues

00:25:28with

00:25:28dead

00:25:29people's

00:25:29correspondents

00:25:30and

00:25:31has

00:25:31genuinely

00:25:32strong

00:25:32feelings

00:25:33about

00:25:33acid-free

00:25:34tissue

00:25:34paper

00:25:36the

00:25:37face

00:25:37of

00:25:37someone

00:25:37who

00:25:38had

00:25:38apparently

00:25:39in

00:25:39the

00:25:40course

00:25:40of

00:25:40a

00:25:40nightmare

00:25:41performed

00:25:42an

00:25:42omega

00:25:42claiming

00:25:43mark

00:25:43on

00:25:44the

00:25:44head

00:25:44of

00:25:45an

00:25:45organized

00:25:45crime

00:25:46family

00:25:47I

00:25:48put

00:25:48my

00:25:48hand

00:25:49over

00:25:49my

00:25:49eyes

00:25:49for

00:25:50a

00:25:50moment

00:25:50then

00:25:51I

00:25:51took

00:25:52my

00:25:52hand

00:25:52away

00:25:53then

00:25:54I

00:25:54opened

00:25:54the

00:25:55bathroom

00:25:55door

00:25:55and

00:25:56went

00:25:57to

00:25:57answer

00:25:57the

00:25:57knock

00:25:59I

00:26:00opened

00:26:00it

00:26:00expecting

00:26:01Corvin

00:26:01Varro

00:26:02it

00:26:03was

00:26:03not

00:26:03Corvin

00:26:04Varro

00:26:04it

00:26:05was

00:26:05six

00:26:06of

00:26:06his

00:26:06men

00:26:06six

00:26:08very

00:26:08large

00:26:09very

00:26:09serious

00:26:10men

00:26:10in

00:26:11various

00:26:11states

00:26:12of

00:26:12morning

00:26:13preparedness

00:26:15Pyotr

00:26:15was

00:26:15among

00:26:16them

00:26:16and

00:26:17Pyotr's

00:26:17expression

00:26:18was

00:26:18one

00:26:18I

00:26:18had

00:26:19not

00:26:19seen

00:26:19before

00:26:20which

00:26:21was

00:26:21not

00:26:21his

00:26:21usual

00:26:22neutral

00:26:22but

00:26:23something

00:26:23much

00:26:24more

00:26:24intent

00:26:26they

00:26:26were

00:26:26standing

00:26:27in the

00:26:27hallway

00:26:27outside

00:26:28my

00:26:28door

00:26:29in

00:26:29a

00:26:29loose

00:26:29formation

00:26:30and

00:26:31when

00:26:31I

00:26:31opened

00:26:32the

00:26:32door

00:26:32and

00:26:32they

00:26:32saw

00:26:33me

00:26:33every

00:26:34single

00:26:34one

00:26:35of

00:26:35them

00:26:35lowered

00:26:35their

00:26:36eyes

00:26:36not

00:26:37to

00:26:38the

00:26:38floor

00:26:38exactly

00:26:39not

00:26:40the

00:26:40formal

00:26:40submission

00:26:41of

00:26:41an

00:26:41omega

00:26:41in

00:26:42a

00:26:42traditional

00:26:42hierarchy

00:26:43something

00:26:45else

00:26:45something

00:26:46that

00:26:46landed

00:26:47somewhere

00:26:47between

00:26:48respect

00:26:48and

00:26:49recognition

00:26:49a

00:26:51specific

00:26:51quality

00:26:52of

00:26:52attention

00:26:52that

00:26:53I

00:26:53had

00:26:53no

00:26:53context

00:26:54for

00:26:54good

00:26:56morning

00:26:56Pyotr

00:26:57said

00:26:57is there

00:26:58anything

00:26:59you

00:26:59need

00:26:59his

00:27:01voice

00:27:01was

00:27:01different

00:27:01the

00:27:03same

00:27:03low

00:27:03register

00:27:04as

00:27:04always

00:27:04but

00:27:05the

00:27:05sentence

00:27:06was

00:27:06oriented

00:27:07differently

00:27:07toward

00:27:08me

00:27:09rather

00:27:09than

00:27:10past

00:27:10me

00:27:10I

00:27:12looked

00:27:12at

00:27:12them

00:27:12they

00:27:13looked

00:27:13at

00:27:13me

00:27:14or

00:27:15rather

00:27:15they

00:27:16oriented

00:27:17toward

00:27:17me

00:27:17with

00:27:18their

00:27:18eyes

00:27:18lowered

00:27:19in

00:27:19that

00:27:19specific

00:27:19way

00:27:21breakfast

00:27:21is

00:27:22ready

00:27:22Pyotr

00:27:23said

00:27:23if

00:27:24you

00:27:24would

00:27:24like

00:27:24to

00:27:24come

00:27:25down

00:27:26I

00:27:26stood

00:27:27in

00:27:27the

00:27:27doorway

00:27:27of

00:27:28my

00:27:28room

00:27:28in

00:27:28yesterday's

00:27:29clothes

00:27:29having

00:27:30spent

00:27:31the

00:27:31night

00:27:31accidentally

00:27:32marking

00:27:32the

00:27:33most

00:27:33powerful

00:27:33alpha

00:27:34and

00:27:34cost

00:27:35of

00:27:35our

00:27:35city

00:27:35and

00:27:36stared

00:27:36at

00:27:37six

00:27:37of

00:27:37his

00:27:37most

00:27:37trusted

00:27:38men

00:27:38kneeling

00:27:39in

00:27:40the

00:27:40metaphorical

00:27:41if

00:27:41not

00:27:42literal

00:27:42sense

00:27:43outside

00:27:43my

00:27:44door

00:27:45I

00:27:45said

00:27:46the

00:27:46only

00:27:46thing

00:27:46that

00:27:47seemed

00:27:47accurate

00:27:48what

00:27:49is

00:27:49happening

00:27:49I

00:27:50said

00:27:52Pyotr's

00:27:52mouth

00:27:52moved

00:27:53in

00:27:53a

00:27:53way

00:27:53that

00:27:54was

00:27:54not

00:27:54quite

00:27:54a

00:27:54smile

00:27:55but

00:27:56was

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00:27:56to

00:27:56one

00:27:57you

00:27:58marked

00:27:58him

00:27:59Pyotr

00:27:59said

00:28:00simply

00:28:00as

00:28:01if

00:28:01this

00:28:02explained

00:28:02everything

00:28:03and

00:28:03then

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00:28:05I

00:28:05had

00:28:05learned

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00:28:06the

00:28:06past

00:28:06nineteen

00:28:07days

00:28:07that

00:28:08the

00:28:08Vero

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00:28:09on

00:28:10the

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00:28:11absolute

00:28:11practicality

00:28:12in

00:28:13all

00:28:13things

00:28:14he

00:28:14simply

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00:28:15for

00:28:15me

00:28:16to

00:28:16decide

00:28:16whether

00:28:16I

00:28:17was

00:28:17coming

00:28:17to

00:28:17breakfast

00:28:19I

00:28:19went

00:28:19to

00:28:20breakfast

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00:28:21was

00:28:21no

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00:28:22of

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00:28:25compound

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00:28:26seven

00:28:26in the

00:28:26morning

00:28:27Corvin

00:28:28Vero

00:28:28was already

00:28:29at the

00:28:29head of

00:28:30the

00:28:30long

00:28:30dining

00:28:31table

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00:28:31I

00:28:31came

00:28:32in

00:28:32He

00:28:33was

00:28:33in

00:28:33a

00:28:33dark

00:28:34shirt

00:28:34collar

00:28:35slightly

00:28:35open

00:28:36the

00:28:36mark

00:28:37on

00:28:37his

00:28:37neck

00:28:37visible

00:28:38in

00:28:38the

00:28:38morning

00:28:39light

00:28:39He

00:28:40was

00:28:40reading

00:28:41something

00:28:41He

00:28:42looked

00:28:42up

00:28:43when

00:28:43I

00:28:43entered

00:28:43The

00:28:44six

00:28:44men

00:28:45arranged

00:28:45themselves

00:28:46in

00:28:46their

00:28:46usual

00:28:47positions

00:28:47around

00:28:48the

00:28:48room

00:28:48The

00:28:49morning

00:28:50staff

00:28:50moved

00:28:51through

00:28:51their

00:28:51routines

00:28:52Everything

00:28:53was

00:28:54exactly

00:28:54as it

00:28:55had

00:28:55been

00:28:55every

00:28:56morning

00:28:56for the

00:28:56past

00:28:57nineteen

00:28:57days

00:28:58except

00:28:59that

00:28:59the

00:29:00quality

00:29:00of

00:29:00attention

00:29:01in

00:29:01the

00:29:01room

00:29:01had

00:29:02shifted

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00:29:03way

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00:29:04light

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00:29:05cloud

00:29:06moves

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00:29:10illuminated

00:29:11I

00:29:13sat

00:29:13down

00:29:13Someone

00:29:14put

00:29:15coffee

00:29:15in

00:29:15front

00:29:15of

00:29:16me

00:29:16before

00:29:16I

00:29:17asked

00:29:17for

00:29:17it

00:29:18Corvin

00:29:19looked

00:29:19at

00:29:19me

00:29:20from

00:29:20the

00:29:20head

00:29:20of

00:29:20the

00:29:20table

00:29:21with

00:29:21those

00:29:22dark

00:29:22eyes

00:29:23I

00:29:24owe

00:29:24you

00:29:25an

00:29:25explanation

00:29:25he

00:29:26said

00:29:26I

00:29:27looked

00:29:28at

00:29:28him

00:29:29the

00:29:30door

00:29:30I

00:29:30said

00:29:32yes

00:29:32he

00:29:33said

00:29:33he

00:29:34sat

00:29:34down

00:29:35what

00:29:35he

00:29:35had

00:29:35been

00:29:35reading

00:29:35and

00:29:36he

00:29:36told

00:29:36me

00:29:37in

00:29:37the

00:29:37same

00:29:38direct

00:29:38and

00:29:39precise

00:29:39manner

00:29:40he

00:29:40brought

00:29:40to

00:29:40everything

00:29:41that

00:29:42he

00:29:42had

00:29:42known

00:29:43the

00:29:43door

00:29:43was

00:29:44there

00:29:44before

00:29:44I

00:29:45arrived

00:29:45he

00:29:46told

00:29:46me

00:29:47that

00:29:47he

00:29:47had

00:29:47not

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00:29:48because

00:29:48he

00:29:49had

00:29:49not

00:29:49known

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00:29:50to

00:29:50mention

00:29:50it

00:29:50without

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00:29:52he

00:29:52was

00:29:52implying

00:29:53something

00:29:53he

00:29:53was

00:29:54not

00:29:54certain

00:29:54he

00:29:55had

00:29:55the

00:29:55right

00:29:55to

00:29:56imply

00:29:56he

00:29:57told

00:29:58me

00:29:58that

00:29:58three

00:29:58weeks

00:29:59into

00:29:59my

00:29:59residency

00:30:00he

00:30:00had

00:30:01asked

00:30:01Roselle

00:30:02to

00:30:02check

00:30:02whether

00:30:02the

00:30:03bolt

00:30:03on

00:30:03my

00:30:03side

00:30:04was

00:30:04functional

00:30:04and

00:30:05that

00:30:05Roselle

00:30:06had

00:30:06confirmed

00:30:07it

00:30:07was

00:30:07he

00:30:09had

00:30:09been

00:30:09in

00:30:10his

00:30:10own

00:30:10particular

00:30:11way

00:30:11ensuring

00:30:12that

00:30:13the

00:30:13choice

00:30:13remained

00:30:14mine

00:30:15the

00:30:16nightmare

00:30:16I

00:30:17said

00:30:18that

00:30:19he

00:30:19had

00:30:19not

00:30:20anticipated

00:30:20he

00:30:21said

00:30:21and

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00:30:22I

00:30:23needed

00:30:23him

00:30:23to

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00:30:26he

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00:30:28the

00:30:28day

00:30:29I

00:30:29looked

00:30:29at

00:30:30the

00:30:30mark

00:30:30on

00:30:30his

00:30:30neck

00:30:31which

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00:30:31visible

00:30:32above

00:30:32his

00:30:32collar

00:30:33in

00:30:33the

00:30:33morning

00:30:33light

00:30:33and

00:30:34which

00:30:34his

00:30:34men

00:30:35had

00:30:35clearly

00:30:35already

00:30:36seen

00:30:36and

00:30:37which

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00:30:37I

00:30:38understood

00:30:38a

00:30:39fact

00:30:39about

00:30:40the

00:30:40world

00:30:40that

00:30:40existed

00:30:45I

00:30:45looked

00:30:46at

00:30:46the

00:30:46men

00:30:46arranged

00:30:47around

00:30:47the

00:30:47room

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00:30:48their

00:30:48specific

00:30:49quality

00:30:49of

00:30:49morning

00:30:50attention

00:30:50the

00:30:51orientation

00:30:51toward

00:30:52me

00:30:52that

00:30:53was

00:30:53different

00:30:53from

00:30:53anything

00:30:54I

00:30:54had

00:30:54experienced

00:30:55in

00:30:55my

00:30:55life

00:30:56as

00:30:56an

00:30:56Omega

00:30:56not

00:30:58the

00:30:58hierarchical

00:30:59deference

00:30:59that

00:31:00the

00:31:00social

00:31:00order

00:31:01theoretically

00:31:01prescribed

00:31:02and

00:31:03which

00:31:03most

00:31:03people

00:31:04only

00:31:04performed

00:31:05when

00:31:05it

00:31:05was

00:31:05required

00:31:06but

00:31:07something

00:31:07that

00:31:07felt

00:31:08more

00:31:08like

00:31:08genuine

00:31:09recognition

00:31:10the

00:31:11kind

00:31:11of

00:31:11attention

00:31:11that

00:31:12a

00:31:12person

00:31:12receives

00:31:12when

00:31:13they

00:31:13have

00:31:13done

00:31:13something

00:31:14that

00:31:14changes

00:31:15the

00:31:15calculus

00:31:15of

00:31:16a

00:31:16room

00:31:17I

00:31:17looked

00:31:18at

00:31:18the

00:31:18coffee

00:31:18that

00:31:19had

00:31:19arrived

00:31:19before

00:31:20I

00:31:20asked

00:31:20for

00:31:20it

00:31:21I

00:31:22looked

00:31:22at

00:31:22Corvin

00:31:23Vero

00:31:23who

00:31:23was

00:31:24watching

00:31:24me

00:31:24with

00:31:24those

00:31:25dark

00:31:25eyes

00:31:26and

00:31:26the

00:31:26contained

00:31:27expression

00:31:27of

00:31:27someone

00:31:28who

00:31:28is

00:31:28managing

00:31:29several

00:31:29things

00:31:30at

00:31:30once

00:31:30and

00:31:31is

00:31:31not

00:31:31going

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00:31:32let

00:31:32any

00:31:32of

00:31:33them

00:31:33make

00:31:33him

00:31:33less

00:31:34than

00:31:34steady

00:31:35I

00:31:36have

00:31:36a

00:31:36question

00:31:37I

00:31:37said

00:31:37he

00:31:39waited

00:31:40did

00:31:40you

00:31:41want

00:31:41this

00:31:41I

00:31:42said

00:31:42not

00:31:43the

00:31:43nightmare

00:31:44not

00:31:45the

00:31:45accident

00:31:45I

00:31:46mean

00:31:46did

00:31:47you

00:31:47want

00:31:48the

00:31:48outcome

00:31:48he

00:31:50was

00:31:50quiet

00:31:50for

00:31:51a

00:31:51long

00:31:51moment

00:31:52the

00:31:52kind

00:31:53of

00:31:53quiet

00:31:53that

00:31:54is

00:31:54not

00:31:54the

00:31:54absence

00:31:55of

00:31:55an

00:31:55answer

00:31:56but

00:31:56the

00:31:56careful

00:31:57construction

00:31:57of

00:31:58one

00:31:59yes

00:32:00he

00:32:00said

00:32:01one

00:32:02word

00:32:02direct

00:32:03without

00:32:04defense

00:32:04or

00:32:05performance

00:32:06I

00:32:07looked

00:32:07at

00:32:07him

00:32:07for

00:32:08a

00:32:08moment

00:32:08more

00:32:09then

00:32:09I

00:32:10picked

00:32:10up

00:32:10my

00:32:10coffee

00:32:11I

00:32:12have

00:32:12to

00:32:12check

00:32:13on

00:32:13the

00:32:13archive

00:32:13I

00:32:14said

00:32:14the

00:32:15temperature

00:32:15controls

00:32:15were

00:32:16down

00:32:16last

00:32:16night

00:32:17I

00:32:18know

00:32:18he

00:32:19said

00:32:19Piotr

00:32:20already

00:32:20had

00:32:20them

00:32:21restored

00:32:21at

00:32:21four

00:32:21in

00:32:22the

00:32:22morning

00:32:23I

00:32:23paused

00:32:24with

00:32:24the

00:32:24coffee

00:32:25halfway

00:32:25to

00:32:26my

00:32:26face

00:32:27at

00:32:28four

00:32:28in

00:32:28the

00:32:28morning

00:32:29I

00:32:29said

00:32:30the

00:32:31papers

00:32:31Corvin

00:32:32said

00:32:33without

00:32:33any

00:32:33particular

00:32:34inflection

00:32:35they

00:32:36matter

00:32:36to

00:32:36you

00:32:38something

00:32:38in

00:32:38my

00:32:39chest

00:32:39did

00:32:39the

00:32:40thing

00:32:40again

00:32:40the

00:32:41same

00:32:41thing

00:32:42it

00:32:42had

00:32:42done

00:32:42in

00:32:42the

00:32:42dark

00:32:43in

00:32:43the

00:32:43night

00:32:43when

00:32:44he

00:32:44asked

00:32:44if

00:32:44I

00:32:45was

00:32:45all

00:32:45right

00:32:45and

00:32:46the

00:32:46question

00:32:46had

00:32:47been

00:32:47genuinely

00:32:47about

00:32:48me

00:32:49I

00:32:50set

00:32:50the

00:32:50coffee

00:32:50down

00:32:52I

00:32:52need

00:32:52to

00:32:53think

00:32:53I

00:32:53said

00:32:54of

00:32:55course

00:32:55he

00:32:56said

00:32:56but

00:32:57I

00:32:57would

00:32:57like

00:32:57I

00:32:58said

00:32:59and

00:33:00then

00:33:00I

00:33:00stopped

00:33:01because

00:33:01the

00:33:01rest

00:33:02of

00:33:02the

00:33:02sentence

00:33:02was

00:33:03not

00:33:04one

00:33:05plan

00:33:05to

00:33:05say

00:33:05and

00:33:06I

00:33:06was

00:33:06not

00:33:07in

00:33:07the

00:33:07habit

00:33:07of

00:33:08saying

00:33:08unplanned

00:33:09things

00:33:11I

00:33:12would

00:33:12like

00:33:12to

00:33:13continue

00:33:13the

00:33:13evening

00:33:14conversations

00:33:14in

00:33:15the

00:33:15kitchen

00:33:16while

00:33:17I

00:33:17think

00:33:19he

00:33:20looked

00:33:20at

00:33:20me

00:33:21something

00:33:22in

00:33:22those

00:33:23dark

00:33:23eyes

00:33:24that

00:33:24was

00:33:24not

00:33:25quite

00:33:25a

00:33:25smile

00:33:26but

00:33:27was

00:33:27the

00:33:27thing

00:33:27that

00:33:28lives

00:33:28adjacent

00:33:29to

00:33:29a

00:33:29smile

00:33:30the

00:33:31thing

00:33:31that

00:33:31a

00:33:32face

00:33:32does

00:33:32when

00:33:33a

00:33:33feeling

00:33:33is

00:33:34real

00:33:34but

00:33:35the

00:33:35person

00:33:36has

00:33:36learned

00:33:36to

00:33:37be

00:33:37careful

00:33:37with

00:33:37it

00:33:39yes

00:33:40he

00:33:40said

00:33:42I

00:33:43picked

00:33:43up

00:33:43my

00:33:43coffee

00:33:44again

00:33:45around

00:33:46me

00:33:46the

00:33:47Vero

00:33:47household

00:33:48continued

00:33:48its

00:33:49mourning

00:33:49the

00:33:51men

00:33:51who

00:33:51had

00:33:51knelt

00:33:52in

00:33:52the

00:33:52hallway

00:33:52returned

00:33:53to

00:33:54their

00:33:54business

00:33:54the

00:33:56staff

00:33:56moved

00:33:57through

00:33:57the

00:33:57kitchen

00:33:58the

00:33:59storm

00:33:59from

00:34:00the

00:34:00night

00:34:00before

00:34:00had

00:34:01gone

00:34:01leaving

00:34:02behind

00:34:03the

00:34:03particular

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00:34:04clarity

00:34:05of

00:34:05autumn

00:34:06air

00:34:06after

00:34:07weather

00:34:07has

00:34:08passed

00:34:08through

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00:34:09taken

00:34:10everything

00:34:10unnecessary

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00:34:12it

00:34:12on

00:34:14his

00:34:14neck

00:34:14my

00:34:15mark

00:34:16in

00:34:17my

00:34:17chest

00:34:18something

00:34:19that

00:34:19I

00:34:19had

00:34:20been

00:34:20not

00:34:20examining

00:34:21for

00:34:21nineteen

00:34:22days

00:34:22and

00:34:23which

00:34:23I

00:34:24was

00:34:24going

00:34:24to

00:34:24have

00:34:24to

00:34:25start

00:34:25examining

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00:34:27it

00:34:27turned

00:34:28out

00:34:28that

00:34:28the

00:34:28past

00:34:29did

00:34:29not

00:34:29always

00:34:30resolve

00:34:31cleanly

00:34:31and

00:34:32the

00:34:32present

00:34:33did

00:34:33not

00:34:33always

00:34:34wait

00:34:34for

00:34:35you

00:34:35to

00:34:35be

00:34:35ready

00:34:35for

00:34:36it

00:34:37I

00:34:38had

00:34:38walked

00:34:38through

00:34:38a

00:34:39door

00:34:39in

00:34:39the

00:34:39dark

00:34:40and

00:34:40accidentally

00:34:41changed

00:34:42everything

00:34:43that

00:34:44was

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00:34:45by

00:34:46any

00:34:46reasonable

00:34:47measure

00:34:47but

00:34:49sitting

00:34:49at

00:34:49the

00:34:49long

00:34:50table

00:34:50in

00:34:50the

00:34:51morning

00:34:51light

00:34:51with

00:34:52the

00:34:52archive

00:34:53waiting

00:34:53upstairs

00:34:54and

00:34:55the

00:34:55coffee

00:34:55exactly

00:34:56as

00:34:56I

00:34:56liked

00:34:57it

00:34:57and

00:34:58Corvin

00:34:58Vero

00:34:59reading

00:34:59across

00:34:59the

00:35:00table

00:35:00with

00:35:01the

00:35:01quiet

00:35:01certainty

00:35:02of

00:35:02someone

00:35:03who

00:35:03has

00:35:03decided

00:35:04to

00:35:04be

00:35:04patient

00:35:05I

00:35:06found

00:35:06that

00:35:06catastrophic

00:35:07did

00:35:08not

00:35:08feel

00:35:08for

00:35:09once

00:35:10like

00:35:10the

00:35:11worst

00:35:11possible

00:35:12outcome

00:35:13what

00:35:14I

00:35:14did

00:35:14not

00:35:14yet

00:35:15know

00:35:15was

00:35:16that

00:35:16the

00:35:16mark

00:35:16on

00:35:17his

00:35:17neck

00:35:17had

00:35:18already

00:35:18been

00:35:18seen

00:35:19by

00:35:19someone

00:35:20who

00:35:20was

00:35:20not

00:35:20in

00:35:21this

00:35:21room

00:35:22that

00:35:23a

00:35:23long

00:35:23lens

00:35:24camera

00:35:24positioned

00:35:25in

00:35:25the

00:35:25building

00:35:26across

00:35:26the

00:35:26compound

00:35:27wall

00:35:27had

00:35:28captured

00:35:28images

00:35:29through

00:35:29the

00:35:30dining

00:35:30room

00:35:30windows

00:35:31that

00:35:32those

00:35:32images

00:35:32were

00:35:33already

00:35:33in

00:35:33transit

00:35:34to

00:35:34the

00:35:34one

00:35:35person

00:35:35in

00:35:35Kastavar

00:35:36city

00:35:36who

00:35:37had

00:35:37spent

00:35:37three

00:35:38years

00:35:39looking

00:35:39for

00:35:39exactly

00:35:40this

00:35:40kind

00:35:41of

00:35:41leverage

00:35:41over

00:35:42Corvin

00:35:42Varro

00:35:43the

00:35:44kind

00:35:44that

00:35:44could

00:35:44not

00:35:45be

00:35:45argued

00:35:45away

00:35:46or

00:35:47bought

00:35:47off

00:35:47or

00:35:48resolved

00:35:49through

00:35:49the

00:35:49usual

00:35:50channels

00:35:50available

00:35:51to

00:35:51someone

00:35:51in

00:35:52his

00:35:52position

00:35:52that

00:35:54within

00:35:5448

00:35:55hours

00:35:55I

00:35:56would

00:35:56learn

00:35:56things

00:35:57about

00:35:57the

00:35:57compound's

00:35:58security

00:35:59arrangements

00:35:59about

00:36:00Corvin's

00:36:01enemies

00:36:01about

00:36:02the

00:36:02specific

00:36:03and

00:36:04calculated

00:36:04danger

00:36:05that

00:36:05my

00:36:06accidental

00:36:06mark

00:36:07had

00:36:07created

00:36:08that

00:36:09no

00:36:09amount

00:36:09of

00:36:10archival

00:36:10research

00:36:11could

00:36:11have

00:36:12prepared

00:36:12me

00:36:12for

00:36:13that

00:36:14the

00:36:14next

00:36:14week

00:36:15would

00:36:15require

00:36:15me

00:36:16to

00:36:16make

00:36:16decisions

00:36:17that

00:36:17an

00:36:17archivist

00:36:18who

00:36:18catastrophizes

00:36:20at

00:36:20traffic

00:36:20intersections

00:36:21and

00:36:22has

00:36:22very

00:36:22strong

00:36:23feelings

00:36:23about

00:36:24the

00:36:24humidity

00:36:24levels

00:36:25of

00:36:2519th

00:36:26century

00:36:26correspondence

00:36:27has

00:36:28no

00:36:29reasonable

00:36:29framework

00:36:30for

00:36:30navigating

00:36:31but

00:36:33that

00:36:33is

00:36:33the

00:36:34next

00:36:34part

00:36:34of

00:36:35the

00:36:35story

00:36:35for

00:36:36now

00:36:37what

00:36:38I

00:36:38want

00:36:38you

00:36:38to

00:36:38hold

00:36:39is

00:36:39this

00:36:40a

00:36:41nightmare

00:36:41sent

00:36:42me

00:36:42through

00:36:43a

00:36:43door

00:36:43I

00:36:43did

00:36:44not

00:36:44know

00:36:44was

00:36:45there

00:36:45the

00:36:46most

00:36:46dangerous

00:36:47man

00:36:47in

00:36:48the

00:36:48city

00:36:48lay

00:36:48still

00:36:49and

00:36:50asked

00:36:50if

00:36:51I

00:36:51was

00:36:51all

00:36:52right

00:36:52his

00:36:53men

00:36:53knelt

00:36:54at

00:36:54my

00:36:55door

00:36:55in

00:36:55the

00:36:55morning

00:36:56and

00:36:57I

00:36:57sat

00:36:58at

00:36:58his

00:36:58table

00:36:58and

00:36:59decided

00:36:59with

00:37:00the

00:37:01practical

00:37:01certainty

00:37:02of

00:37:02someone

00:37:02who

00:37:02has

00:37:03spent

00:37:03their

00:37:03career

00:37:04making

00:37:04order

00:37:05out

00:37:05of

00:37:05chaos

00:37:06that

00:37:07some

00:37:07doors

00:37:08once

00:37:09opened

00:37:09are

00:37:10better

00:37:10left

00:37:11that

00:37:11way

00:37:11and

00:37:13some

00:37:13nightmares

00:37:14it

00:37:15turned

00:37:15out

00:37:15lead

00:37:16you

00:37:17exactly

00:37:17where

00:37:19you

00:37:19needed

00:37:19to

00:37:20go

00:37:21the

00:37:22photographs

00:37:23arrived

00:37:2347

00:37:24hours

00:37:25after

00:37:25the

00:37:25storm

00:37:26I

00:37:26know

00:37:27this

00:37:27because

00:37:28I

00:37:28was

00:37:28in

00:37:28the

00:37:28archive

00:37:29when

00:37:29Pyotr

00:37:30came

00:37:30upstairs

00:37:30with

00:37:31the

00:37:31particular

00:37:32quality

00:37:32of

00:37:32contained

00:37:33urgency

00:37:34that

00:37:34I

00:37:35had

00:37:35in

00:37:3621

00:37:36days

00:37:37on

00:37:37the

00:37:37compound

00:37:37learned

00:37:38to

00:37:39distinguish

00:37:39from

00:37:40ordinary

00:37:40speed

00:37:41he

00:37:42did

00:37:42not

00:37:43knock

00:37:43he

00:37:44opened

00:37:44the

00:37:45archive

00:37:45door

00:37:45and

00:37:46said

00:37:46quietly

00:37:47that

00:37:47Corvin

00:37:48was

00:37:48asking

00:37:49for

00:37:49me

00:37:49downstairs

00:37:50and

00:37:51the

00:37:51way

00:37:51he

00:37:52said

00:37:52it

00:37:52told

00:37:53me

00:37:53that

00:37:53asking

00:37:54was

00:37:54a

00:37:54word

00:37:55being

00:37:55used

00:37:56charitably

00:37:57I

00:37:58had

00:37:58been

00:37:58expecting

00:37:59something

00:38:00the

00:38:00conversation

00:38:01at

00:38:01breakfast

00:38:02two

00:38:02days

00:38:02ago

00:38:03had

00:38:03ended

00:38:03with

00:38:04the

00:38:04comfortable

00:38:04fiction

00:38:05that

00:38:05we

00:38:05had

00:38:05time

00:38:06to

00:38:06think

00:38:06and

00:38:07I

00:38:07had

00:38:07used

00:38:08both

00:38:08days

00:38:08doing

00:38:09exactly

00:38:09that

00:38:10moving

00:38:11between

00:38:11the

00:38:12archive

00:38:12and

00:38:12the

00:38:13kitchen

00:38:13table

00:38:13with

00:38:14the

00:38:14focused

00:38:14efficiency

00:38:15of

00:38:15someone

00:38:15who

00:38:16understands

00:38:16that

00:38:17the

00:38:17work

00:38:17is

00:38:18the

00:38:18only

00:38:18variable

00:38:19they

00:38:19can

00:38:19actually

00:38:20control

00:38:21I

00:38:22had

00:38:22not

00:38:22resolved

00:38:23anything

00:38:23in the

00:38:24part of

00:38:24my

00:38:25mind

00:38:25occupied

00:38:25with

00:38:26Corvin

00:38:26Vero

00:38:26but

00:38:27I

00:38:28had

00:38:28made

00:38:28significant

00:38:29progress

00:38:29on the

00:38:30papers

00:38:30and

00:38:31I

00:38:31found

00:38:31that

00:38:31keeping

00:38:32one

00:38:32thing

00:38:32in

00:38:33order

00:38:33helped

00:38:34me

00:38:34tolerate

00:38:34the

00:38:35disorder

00:38:35of

00:38:35another

00:38:36I

00:38:37went

00:38:37downstairs

00:38:38the

00:38:39room

00:38:39Corvin

00:38:40used

00:38:40for

00:38:40what

00:38:41I

00:38:41had

00:38:41come

00:38:41to

00:38:41understand

00:38:42were

00:38:42his

00:38:43working

00:38:43meetings

00:38:44was

00:38:44on the

00:38:44ground

00:38:45floor

00:38:45at

00:38:45the

00:38:46back

00:38:46of

00:38:46the

00:38:46building

00:38:47with

00:38:47windows

00:38:48overlooking

00:38:48the

00:38:49courtyard

00:38:49and

00:38:50a

00:38:50door

00:38:50that

00:38:50could

00:38:51be

00:38:51locked

00:38:51from

00:38:51the

00:38:52inside

00:38:52which

00:38:53it

00:38:53was

00:38:54when

00:38:54Piotr

00:38:55brought

00:38:55me

00:38:55to

00:38:55it

00:38:56Piotr

00:38:57knocked

00:38:57once

00:38:58Corvin

00:38:59said

00:38:59come

00:38:59in

00:39:00there

00:39:01were

00:39:01four

00:39:01people

00:39:02in

00:39:02the

00:39:02room

00:39:02when

00:39:03I

00:39:03entered

00:39:03Corvin

00:39:04behind

00:39:05the

00:39:05desk

00:39:05two

00:39:06men

00:39:06I

00:39:06had

00:39:07seen

00:39:07in

00:39:07the

00:39:07compound

00:39:08but

00:39:08not

00:39:08spoken

00:39:09to

00:39:09both

00:39:10standing

00:39:10against

00:39:11the

00:39:11far

00:39:11wall

00:39:12with

00:39:12the

00:39:12stillness

00:39:13of

00:39:13people

00:39:14who

00:39:14are

00:39:14performing

00:39:15not

00:39:15existing

00:39:16in

00:39:17order

00:39:17to

00:39:17give

00:39:18someone

00:39:18else

00:39:18more

00:39:19space

00:39:19and

00:39:21a

00:39:21woman

00:39:21I

00:39:21had

00:39:22not

00:39:22seen

00:39:22before

00:39:23seated

00:39:23in

00:39:24the

00:39:24chair

00:39:24across

00:39:24from

00:39:25the

00:39:25desk

00:39:25who

00:39:26turned

00:39:26to

00:39:26look

00:39:27at

00:39:27me

00:39:27when

00:39:27I

00:39:27entered

00:39:28with

00:39:28the

00:39:28particular

00:39:29attention

00:39:29of

00:39:29someone

00:39:30who

00:39:30has

00:39:30been

00:39:31waiting

00:39:31for

00:39:31the

00:39:31specific

00:39:32thing

00:39:32that

00:39:33just

00:39:33walked

00:39:33through

00:39:34the

00:39:34door

00:39:35she

00:39:36was

00:39:36perhaps

00:39:36fifty

00:39:37silver

00:39:38haired

00:39:38with

00:39:39the

00:39:39quality

00:39:39of

00:39:39absolute

00:39:40composure

00:39:41that

00:39:41sometimes

00:39:42comes

00:39:42from

00:39:43money

00:39:43and

00:39:44sometimes

00:39:44comes

00:39:45from

00:39:45surviving

00:39:46things

00:39:46that

00:39:47should

00:39:47not

00:39:47have

00:39:47been

00:39:48survivable

00:39:49she

00:39:50wore

00:39:50it

00:39:50without

00:39:51reference

00:39:51as

00:39:52though

00:39:52it

00:39:52had

00:39:52simply

00:39:53become

00:39:53part

00:39:53of

00:39:54the

00:39:54natural

00:39:54conditions

00:39:55of

00:39:55the

00:39:55world

00:39:56her

00:39:57name

00:39:57I

00:39:58would

00:39:58learn

00:39:58was

00:39:59Ilara

00:39:59Sen

00:40:00she

00:40:01ran

00:40:01what

00:40:02remained

00:40:02of the

00:40:03Sen

00:40:03organization

00:40:04which

00:40:04had

00:40:05once

00:40:05held

00:40:05territorial

00:40:06claims

00:40:06in

00:40:07the

00:40:07southern

00:40:07and

00:40:07eastern

00:40:08districts

00:40:08of

00:40:09Kastavar

00:40:09City

00:40:10what

00:40:11remained

00:40:11was

00:40:12considerably

00:40:13less

00:40:13than

00:40:13what

00:40:14had

00:40:14existed

00:40:14before

00:40:15and

00:40:16the

00:40:16cause

00:40:16of

00:40:17the

00:40:17reduction

00:40:17was

00:40:18sitting

00:40:18behind

00:40:18the

00:40:19desk

00:40:19she

00:40:20had

00:40:20been

00:40:20looking

00:40:20for

00:40:20an

00:40:21opening

00:40:21for

00:40:21three

00:40:22years

00:40:22she

00:40:23had

00:40:23found

00:40:24one

00:40:2447

00:40:25hours

00:40:25ago

00:40:26through

00:40:26a

00:40:27long

00:40:27lens

00:40:27camera

00:40:28and

00:40:28a

00:40:28dining

00:40:29room

00:40:29window

00:40:31Corvin

00:40:32did

00:40:32not

00:40:32introduce

00:40:32us

00:40:33he

00:40:33simply

00:40:34said

00:40:34Fen

00:40:35and

00:40:36the

00:40:36single

00:40:36syllable

00:40:37contained

00:40:37enough

00:40:38information

00:40:38that

00:40:39I

00:40:39understood

00:40:40I

00:40:40was

00:40:40to

00:40:41stand

00:40:41beside

00:40:41the

00:40:42desk

00:40:42and

00:40:43not

00:40:43elsewhere

00:40:43in

00:40:44the

00:40:44room

00:40:44I

00:40:45stood

00:40:46beside

00:40:46the

00:40:46desk

00:40:47Ilara

00:40:48Sen

00:40:49looked

00:40:49at

00:40:49the

00:40:49mark

00:40:50on

00:40:50Corvin's

00:40:51neck

00:40:51and

00:40:52then

00:40:52she

00:40:52looked

00:40:52at

00:40:52me

00:40:53with

00:40:53an

00:40:53expression

00:40:54that

00:40:54contained

00:40:55several

00:40:55things

00:40:56operating

00:40:56simultaneously

00:40:58assessment

00:40:59calculation

00:41:00and

00:41:02underneath

00:41:02those

00:41:03something

00:41:04that

00:41:04I

00:41:04thought

00:41:04might

00:41:05be

00:41:05genuine

00:41:06curiosity

00:41:07the

00:41:08kind

00:41:08that

00:41:08arrives

00:41:09when

00:41:09a

00:41:09situation

00:41:10produces

00:41:10a

00:41:11variable

00:41:11that

00:41:12was

00:41:12not

00:41:12anticipated

00:41:14this

00:41:15is

00:41:15the

00:41:15Omega

00:41:16she

00:41:16said

00:41:17not

00:41:18to

00:41:18me

00:41:18to

00:41:19Corvin

00:41:19this

00:41:21is

00:41:21Fen

00:41:21Calloway

00:41:22Corvin

00:41:22said

00:41:24yes

00:41:24she

00:41:25looked

00:41:26at

00:41:26me

00:41:26directly

00:41:26you

00:41:28marked

00:41:28him

00:41:28by

00:41:28accident

00:41:29she

00:41:30said

00:41:30it

00:41:31was

00:41:31not

00:41:31a

00:41:32question

00:41:32it

00:41:33was

00:41:33an

00:41:33opening

00:41:34offered

00:41:34with

00:41:35the

00:41:35calm

00:41:35of

00:41:36someone

00:41:36who

00:41:36has

00:41:36been

00:41:37in

00:41:37enough

00:41:37rooms

00:41:38to

00:41:38know

00:41:38that

00:41:38how

00:41:39a

00:41:39person

00:41:39responds

00:41:40to

00:41:40the

00:41:40first

00:41:41sentence

00:41:41tells

00:41:42you

00:41:42most

00:41:42of

00:41:43what

00:41:43you

00:41:43need

00:41:43to

00:41:43know

00:41:43about

00:41:44them

00:41:45I

00:41:45looked

00:41:46at

00:41:46her

00:41:47I

00:41:47did

00:41:48I

00:41:48said

00:41:49she

00:41:50waited

00:41:51I

00:41:52was

00:41:52asleep

00:41:52I

00:41:53said

00:41:54I

00:41:54have

00:41:55a

00:41:55recurring

00:41:55nightmare

00:41:56there

00:41:57was

00:41:57a

00:41:57storm

00:41:57and

00:41:58the

00:41:58power

00:41:58went

00:41:59out

00:41:59I

00:42:00walked

00:42:00through

00:42:00a

00:42:01connecting

00:42:01door

00:42:01I

00:42:02did

00:42:02not

00:42:02know

00:42:02was

00:42:02there

00:42:03my

00:42:04biology

00:42:04performed

00:42:05an

00:42:05act

00:42:06that

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00:43:27Corvin

00:43:28she

00:43:28described

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00:43:29precision

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00:43:33territorial

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00:43:39would

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00:43:49Sen

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00:43:50head

00:43:50slightly

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00:43:53what

00:43:54the

00:43:54photographs

00:43:54will

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00:43:55said

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00:43:57understand

00:43:57what

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00:43:58believe

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00:43:59do

00:43:59Corvin

00:44:00said

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00:44:01Omega

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00:44:02mark

00:44:02on the

00:44:03head

00:44:03of the

00:44:03Vero

00:44:04Syndicate

00:44:04she

00:44:05said

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00:44:06questions

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00:44:07asked

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00:44:18am

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00:44:36vulnerability

00:44:36I

00:44:37said

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00:44:39me

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00:44:56said

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00:45:34right

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00:45:41Corvin

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00:45:49days

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00:46:19hours

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00:46:32Corvin

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00:46:38Pyotr

00:46:38was

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00:46:39room

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00:46:42I

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00:46:56that

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00:46:57would

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00:47:08moment

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00:47:12said

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00:47:14people's

00:47:14information

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00:47:16I

00:47:16said

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00:47:21said

00:47:22Pyotr

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00:47:24Pyotr

00:47:25without

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00:47:38twenty-four

00:47:38hours

00:47:39that

00:47:39Ilara

00:47:40Sen

00:47:40had

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00:47:41like

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00:47:42piece

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00:47:48what

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00:47:49has

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00:47:50said

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00:47:56of

00:47:57it

00:47:57which

00:47:57I

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00:48:09city

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00:48:15two

00:48:16journalists

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00:48:19way

00:48:19of

00:48:19people

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00:48:21question

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00:48:24answer

00:48:25that

00:48:25can

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00:48:28relationship

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00:48:29Corvin

00:48:29she

00:48:30had

00:48:30named

00:48:30was

00:48:31his

00:48:31younger

00:48:31brother

00:48:32Aldrick

00:48:33who ran

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00:48:34legitimate

00:48:34side

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00:48:35family's

00:48:35holdings

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00:48:36whose

00:48:36position

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00:48:37world

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00:48:43the

00:48:43eastern

00:48:44corridor

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00:48:46not

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00:48:49years ago

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00:48:53it

00:48:53people

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00:49:02eyes

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00:49:07twenty-one

00:49:08days

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00:49:10organization

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00:49:12management

00:49:12of

00:49:13information

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00:49:16three

00:49:17generations

00:49:17of the

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00:49:19private

00:49:19correspondence

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00:49:21understood

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00:49:23anyone

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00:49:25room

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00:49:26the

00:49:26family's

00:49:26power

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00:49:28what

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00:49:29actual

00:49:29foundation

00:49:30was

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00:49:33money

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00:49:40what

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00:49:41that

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00:49:43Sen

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00:50:05have

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00:50:10know

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00:50:41purpose

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00:50:42had

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00:50:43into

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00:50:43the

00:50:43previous

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00:50:44weeks

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00:50:54thing

00:50:54that

00:50:55I

00:50:55had

00:50:55filed

00:50:55under

00:50:55the

00:50:56broad

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00:51:11could

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00:51:13particular

00:51:14arrangement

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00:51:15the

00:51:15two

00:51:15families

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00:51:17found

00:51:18it

00:51:18in

00:51:18the

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00:51:19of

00:51:19the

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00:51:20period

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00:51:22letter

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00:51:25a

00:51:25document

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00:51:28receipt

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00:51:30transaction

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00:51:32Senna's

00:51:32organization

00:51:33had

00:51:33requested

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00:51:34Varro

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00:51:36the

00:51:36Varro

00:51:37family

00:51:37had

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00:51:39had

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00:51:40the

00:51:40Senna

00:51:41organization

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00:51:42benefit

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00:51:43had

00:51:43never

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00:51:46the

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00:51:51the

00:51:51Senna

00:51:51organization

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00:51:52first

00:51:52place

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00:51:53years

00:51:54ago

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00:51:55arrangement

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00:51:56Corvin's

00:51:57father

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00:51:58payment

00:51:58for a

00:51:58service

00:51:59rendered

00:51:59which

00:52:01meant

00:52:01that

00:52:01when

00:52:01Corvin

00:52:02had

00:52:02restructured

00:52:02the

00:52:03territorial

00:52:03arrangement

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00:52:04years

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00:52:05he

00:52:05had

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00:52:08organization

00:52:09he

00:52:10had

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00:52:11something

00:52:11that

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00:52:12to

00:52:13the

00:52:13document

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00:52:13hand

00:52:14the

00:52:14Senna

00:52:15organization

00:52:15had

00:52:16received

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00:52:17gift

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00:52:18conditions

00:52:19that

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00:52:19document

00:52:20specified

00:52:20and

00:52:21which

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00:52:22on

00:52:22what

00:52:23Corvin

00:52:23had

00:52:23told

00:52:23me

00:52:24about

00:52:24three

00:52:24years

00:52:24ago

00:52:25the

00:52:25Senna

00:52:26organization

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00:52:27not

00:52:27met

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00:52:29brought

00:52:29the

00:52:30documents

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00:52:32Corvin

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00:52:33he

00:52:34read

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00:52:38me

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00:52:39an

00:52:39expression

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00:52:39had

00:52:40not

00:52:40seen

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00:52:55does

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00:52:57said

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00:53:01said

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00:53:07would

00:53:07need

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00:53:14conversation

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00:53:15said

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00:53:17distribution

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00:53:18information

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00:53:19the

00:53:19conversation

00:53:19I

00:53:20said

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00:53:32Sene

00:53:32or

00:53:33the

00:53:3324

00:53:34hour

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00:53:36a

00:53:36moment

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00:53:40the

00:53:40mark

00:53:41that

00:53:41had

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00:53:42been

00:53:42intended

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00:53:43the

00:53:43question

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00:53:45one

00:53:45word

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00:53:47the

00:53:47way

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00:53:47archive

00:53:47temperature

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00:53:49had

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00:53:50in

00:53:50the

00:53:50morning

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00:53:55you

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00:54:00he

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00:54:06moment

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00:54:12Ilara

00:54:12Sene

00:54:13the

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00:54:15room

00:54:16one that

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00:54:17not

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00:54:21particular

00:54:21formality

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00:54:23more people

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00:54:25Piotr

00:54:26two

00:54:27of

00:54:27Corvin

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00:54:28a

00:54:29man

00:54:29I

00:54:30had

00:54:30not

00:54:30met

00:54:30who

00:54:31Corvin

00:54:31introduced

00:54:32simply

00:54:32as

00:54:33Rayel

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00:54:34who

00:54:35had

00:54:35the

00:54:35quality

00:54:35of

00:54:36someone

00:54:36whose

00:54:36specific

00:54:37function

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00:54:38room

00:54:38is

00:54:39to

00:54:39ensure

00:54:39that

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00:54:40is

00:54:40said

00:54:40in

00:54:41the

00:54:41room

00:54:41is

00:54:42remembered

00:54:42accurately

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00:54:45Sene

00:54:45arrived

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00:54:47people

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00:54:50me

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00:54:51expected

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00:54:52to

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00:54:54look

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00:54:54gave

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00:54:55contained

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00:54:58made

00:54:58her

00:54:58position

00:54:59clear

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00:55:03photographs

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00:55:05list

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00:55:09let her

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00:55:10he

00:55:11placed

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00:55:11documents

00:55:12on

00:55:12the

00:55:12table

00:55:12he

00:55:13did

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00:55:14explain

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00:55:14he

00:55:15let

00:55:15her

00:55:15read

00:55:16them

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00:55:18Ilara

00:55:18Sene

00:55:18read

00:55:19those

00:55:19documents

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00:55:20one

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00:55:20the

00:55:20more

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00:55:23professional

00:55:23life

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00:55:25is

00:55:25a

00:55:25specific

00:55:25quality

00:55:26of

00:55:26composure

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00:55:27person

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00:55:31the

00:55:31room

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00:55:32in

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00:55:33demonstrated

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00:55:34the

00:55:34precision

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00:55:35someone

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00:55:37practice

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00:55:49at

00:55:49me

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00:56:09a

00:56:09moment

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00:56:11documents

00:56:12Corvin

00:56:13said

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00:56:14the

00:56:14eastern

00:56:15corridor

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00:56:16transferred

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00:56:17sin

00:56:17organization

00:56:1822

00:56:18years

00:56:19ago

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00:56:20conditions

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00:56:26a

00:56:26correction

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00:56:29a

00:56:30seizure

00:56:30of

00:56:30territory

00:56:31the

00:56:32photographs

00:56:33you

00:56:33have

00:56:33taken

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00:56:34my

00:56:34bonded

00:56:34partner

00:56:35they

00:56:36are

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00:56:40story

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00:56:41tell

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00:56:41not

00:56:42the

00:56:42story

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00:56:46the

00:56:46room

00:56:46was

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00:56:47particular

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00:56:48of

00:56:48a

00:56:49held

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00:56:50Ilara

00:56:51Sen

00:56:51looked

00:56:52at the

00:56:52documents

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00:56:54at

00:56:54me

00:56:55then

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00:56:56Corvin

00:56:58the

00:56:58word

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00:57:00said

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00:57:02did

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00:57:04the

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00:57:07said

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00:57:09did

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00:57:18Sen

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00:57:20it

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00:57:21been

00:57:21she

00:57:22said

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00:57:25the

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00:57:27people

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00:57:28diplomatic

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00:57:30she

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00:57:32situation

00:57:32without

00:57:33conceding

00:57:34anything

00:57:34she had

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00:57:39and

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00:57:40more

00:57:41time

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00:57:43archivist

00:57:43she

00:57:44said

00:57:45yes

00:57:46I

00:57:46said

00:57:47she

00:57:48left

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00:57:52sat

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00:57:53the

00:57:53chair

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00:57:54put

00:57:54my

00:57:55hands

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00:57:55the

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00:57:57at

00:57:57the

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00:58:02said

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00:58:02word

00:58:02bonded

00:58:03I

00:58:04said

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00:58:06he

00:58:06said

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00:58:11said

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00:58:21it

00:58:22that

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00:58:29very

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00:58:30I

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00:58:32days

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00:58:32the

00:58:33kitchen

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00:58:34texture

00:58:34of

00:58:35this

00:58:35person

00:58:35I

00:58:36had

00:58:36spent

00:58:36three

00:58:37weeks

00:58:37reading

00:58:38the

00:58:38history

00:58:38of

00:58:39his

00:58:39family

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00:58:40to

00:58:40say

00:58:41the

00:58:41history

00:58:41of

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00:58:42he

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00:58:43he

00:58:43was

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00:59:15papers

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00:59:16me

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00:59:18thought

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00:59:18what

00:59:18I

00:59:19had

00:59:19said

00:59:19to

00:59:19Ilara

00:59:20Sen

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00:59:20the

00:59:21first

00:59:21meeting

00:59:21that

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00:59:23the

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00:59:23did

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00:59:25what

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00:59:29the

00:59:29chair

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00:59:32not

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00:59:33it

00:59:33the

00:59:33way

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00:59:36is

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00:59:39the

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00:59:40I

00:59:41I

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00:59:42the

00:59:42thing

00:59:42that

00:59:42seemed

00:59:43accurate

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00:59:45put

00:59:45my

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00:59:49once

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00:59:52moment

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00:59:54something

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00:59:56which

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00:59:59all

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01:03:34a

01:03:34communication

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01:11:37from a

01:11:37colleague

01:11:38in another

01:11:38city

01:11:38who had

01:11:39heard

01:11:39through

01:11:40professional

01:11:40channels

01:11:41that I

01:11:42had

01:11:42completed

01:11:43a

01:11:43significant

01:11:43private

01:11:44archive

01:11:44project

01:11:45he was

01:11:46asking

01:11:47whether I

01:11:47would be

01:11:47available

01:11:48for a

01:11:48consultation

01:11:49I read

01:11:50the letter

01:11:51and then I

01:11:52looked at the

01:11:52archive room

01:11:53which smelled

01:11:54of old

01:11:55paper and

01:11:55careful

01:11:56preservation

01:11:56and which

01:11:57was by

01:11:58any

01:11:58professional

01:11:59standard

01:11:59in excellent

01:12:01condition

01:12:02I put the

01:12:03letter in the

01:12:03appropriate file

01:12:04I went

01:12:05downstairs

01:12:07Corvin was in

01:12:08the kitchen

01:12:08with his

01:12:09accounts

01:12:09he looked

01:12:10up

01:12:11I have

01:12:12a professional

01:12:13inquiry

01:12:13I said

01:12:15he waited

01:12:17a colleague

01:12:18has asked

01:12:18whether I am

01:12:19available for

01:12:19a consultation

01:12:20I said

01:12:21the collection

01:12:23in question

01:12:23is in

01:12:24another

01:12:24city

01:12:25approximately

01:12:26a two-week

01:12:27project

01:12:27if the

01:12:28materials

01:12:28are as

01:12:29described

01:12:30he set

01:12:31down his

01:12:31pen

01:12:33will you

01:12:34take it

01:12:34he said

01:12:35I looked

01:12:36at him

01:12:36I am

01:12:38considering

01:12:39it

01:12:39I said

01:12:40I would

01:12:41need to

01:12:41be away

01:12:42for two

01:12:42weeks

01:12:43I wanted

01:12:44to discuss

01:12:44the arrangement

01:12:46he looked

01:12:47at me

01:12:47with those

01:12:47dark

01:12:48eyes

01:12:49not the

01:12:50careful

01:12:50management

01:12:50of expression

01:12:51but the

01:12:52thing

01:12:52underneath

01:12:52it

01:12:53which I

01:12:54had

01:12:54learned

01:12:54over the

01:12:55course

01:12:55of several

01:12:56months

01:12:56to read

01:12:57as clearly

01:12:57as I

01:12:58read

01:12:58primary

01:12:59sources

01:13:00the

01:13:01archive

01:13:01here

01:13:01he said

01:13:02will

01:13:03you

01:13:03want

01:13:03to

01:13:04come

01:13:04back

01:13:04to

01:13:04it

01:13:04afterward

01:13:05I

01:13:06looked

01:13:06at

01:13:06him

01:13:07for

01:13:07a

01:13:07moment

01:13:08I

01:13:09have

01:13:09a

01:13:09permanent

01:13:09consulting

01:13:10arrangement

01:13:11I

01:13:11said

01:13:11for

01:13:12the

01:13:12ongoing

01:13:13maintenance

01:13:13of this

01:13:14collection

01:13:14I

01:13:15expect

01:13:16I

01:13:16will

01:13:16be

01:13:16returning

01:13:17to

01:13:17it

01:13:17for

01:13:17a

01:13:18considerable

01:13:18period

01:13:19of

01:13:19time

01:13:20unless

01:13:20the

01:13:21terms

01:13:21of

01:13:21the

01:13:21arrangement

01:13:22have

01:13:22changed

01:13:23no

01:13:24he

01:13:24said

01:13:25the

01:13:26terms

01:13:26have

01:13:26not

01:13:27changed

01:13:28the

01:13:28morning

01:13:29light

01:13:29came

01:13:29through

01:13:30the

01:13:30kitchen

01:13:30windows

01:13:31autumn

01:13:32again

01:13:32the

01:13:33particular

01:13:33pale

01:13:34gold

01:13:34of

01:13:34the

01:13:34season

01:13:35that

01:13:35had

01:13:35been

01:13:35turning

01:13:36when

01:13:36I

01:13:36first

01:13:36arrived

01:13:37outside

01:13:38the

01:13:39city

01:13:39made

01:13:40its

01:13:40city

01:13:40sounds

01:13:41inside

01:13:42the

01:13:43kitchen

01:13:43was

01:13:44warm

01:13:44and

01:13:44the

01:13:45coffee

01:13:45was

01:13:45already

01:13:46made

01:13:46and

01:13:47Piotr

01:13:48was

01:13:48somewhere

01:13:48in

01:13:49the

01:13:49building

01:13:49doing

01:13:50the

01:13:50things

01:13:50that

01:13:50Piotr

01:13:51did

01:13:51and

01:13:52Corvin

01:13:53was

01:13:53at

01:13:53the

01:13:53table

01:13:54looking

01:13:54at

01:13:55me

01:13:55with

01:13:55the

01:13:56expression

01:13:56that

01:13:56was

01:13:57not

01:13:57managed

01:13:58but

01:13:58simply

01:13:59present

01:14:00I

01:14:01sat

01:14:01down

01:14:01at

01:14:01the

01:14:01table

01:14:02across

01:14:02from

01:14:02him

01:14:03the

01:14:03long

01:14:04table

01:14:04where

01:14:05we

01:14:05had

01:14:05spent

01:14:05so

01:14:06many

01:14:06evenings

01:14:06and

01:14:07I

01:14:08poured

01:14:08the

01:14:08coffee

01:14:10and

01:14:10that

01:14:11was

01:14:11that

01:14:11which

01:14:12is

01:14:12to

01:14:13say

01:14:13it

01:14:14was

01:14:14everything

01:14:15which

01:14:16is

01:14:16to

01:14:16say

01:14:16that

01:14:16the

01:14:17door

01:14:17had

01:14:17been

01:14:17walked

01:14:18through

01:14:18in

01:14:18the

01:14:19dark

01:14:19and

01:14:19had

01:14:20turned

01:14:20out

01:14:20to

01:14:20lead

01:14:21somewhere

01:14:21I

01:14:22had

01:14:22not

01:14:22been

01:14:22looking

01:14:23for

01:14:23and

01:14:24which

01:14:24was

01:14:25by

01:14:25any

01:14:25reasonable

01:14:26measure

01:14:27precisely

01:14:28where

01:14:28I

01:14:29needed

01:14:29to

01:14:29be

01:14:31If you

01:14:32enjoyed

01:14:32this

01:14:32story

01:14:33please

01:14:33like

01:14:34share

01:14:34and

01:14:35subscribe

01:14:35it

01:14:36truly

01:14:36helps

01:14:37the

01:14:37channel

01:14:37grow

01:14:38my

01:14:39beautiful

01:14:40heaven

01:14:40angels

01:14:41tell me

01:14:41your

01:14:42thoughts

01:14:42in the

01:14:42comments

01:14:43which

01:14:44part

01:14:44moved

01:14:45you

01:14:45the

01:14:45most

01:14:45and

01:14:46where

01:14:46can

01:14:47I

01:14:47improve

01:14:47I

01:14:48love

01:14:49reading

01:14:49and

01:14:50replying

01:14:50to

01:14:50your

01:14:51comments

01:14:51it

01:14:52means

01:14:52the

01:14:52world

01:14:52to

01:14:53me

01:14:53let

01:14:54us

01:14:54meet

01:14:55again

01:14:55next

01:14:55time

01:14:56with

01:14:56a

01:14:56better

01:14:56story

01:14:57until

01:14:58then

01:14:59I

01:14:59hope

01:15:00you

01:15:00all

01:15:00have

01:15:01a

01:15:01wonderful

01:15:02day

01:15:36I

I Bit the Mafia Alpha's Neck During a Nightmare — His Men Knelt to Me at Breakfast

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