Time/Date: TC1853.01.14 (Morning through Evening)
Location: Evidence Facility, Fourth District → Lower Districts, Sixth District → Long Estate, Second District
Serenya stood in the shadow of a converted warehouse in the Sixth District's Craftsman Quarter, studying the building across the narrow street with the kind of attention most people reserved for dangerous animals.
Three days of surveillance. Three days of her hired informants tracking movement patterns, analyzing residents, mapping the area with ruthless efficiency. And finally, they'd narrowed it down to this location.
A boarding house with individual cottages. Quiet. Isolated enough for privacy but common enough not to attract attention. The kind of place someone trying to disappear might choose.
The kind of place Mara might be hiding.
Serenya's communicator buzzed—the special encrypted one she used for this particular network. She glanced at the message, memorizing the details before deleting it with practiced ease.
