He found her in the common room.
She was sitting at the far table with a cup of something and a small book open in front of her, reading with the relaxed attention of someone who had nowhere in particular to be and found that comfortable. She was around forty, lean, with short grey-streaked hair and a coat that sat on her the way coats sat on people who spent most of their time outside. Her badge was visible on the front panel. Gold-Rank mark. The particular arrangement of lines that the system had read through the wall last night.
Kai got a cup of water from the counter and sat down across from her.
She looked up from the book without surprise. "You noticed me quickly."
"Last night," Kai said.
Something moved in her expression. Not quite amusement. The particular satisfaction of a person who has just had a hypothesis confirmed. "You didn't move when you noticed."
"Moving would have told you something."
