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"...I'll do my best."

"Is there anything else I need to know?"

"Yes, but it's not urgent," Hesta said. "I want to look through some files, but I don't have sufficient access right now. It would also be easy to leave a search trail... I don't want anyone to know I accessed those files."

"Have Yu Xuekun help you?"

"I don't want her to know what I've been looking into either."

"Oh... what are you looking into?"

"Ava," Hesta replied. "Some... projects and cases Ava handled in Nia Province in the past."

Hesta paced slowly around the room. After making one circuit, she heard Chiba's reply.

"Let me think about it. I'll tell you once I've figured out exactly what to do."

"There's one more thing," Hesta said, lowering her voice. "About the Chelated Being who was killed in Mei County—"

"You're still investigating that?"

"It's not really an investigation. Some of the details just seem strange..."

"Don't touch that case, Jane," Chiba said. "It's closed for now. Don't reopen it."

"...You know what happened, don't you?"

"It's hard to say." Chiba's relaxed laughter came through the phone. "Stay away from it if you still want to leave District 14."

On Monday afternoon, Hesta finished her four-thirty class. As she stepped out of the classroom, she saw Farn waving to her from the corridor.

"Hey!" Farn came over. "Heading home? I'll walk with you for a bit."

"I have something tonight. Poetry club."

"...Oh, I forgot." Farn hurried after her. "By the way, why are you even going to poetry club activities?"

"You introduced me to them, and now you're asking why I'm attending their events?"

"I introduced you to Lin Jiao and the others, not some poetry club," Farn corrected. "I don't see the point of clubs like