Megan left the meeting with Manager To-Soren with a bounce to her step and a new office to go to. It wasn’t much of an improvement from her old lab, except that it was, in fact, an office. She had a door she could close, there was only one computer station, and it wasn’t in the basement.

And when she started to work, she realized that her influence brought along with it better access to the systems. A few minutes after starting, she was already looking more in-depth at Connor ...