Chapter 2007


    Harriet and Yulia were among the many who bombarded her with texts, all asking the same pressing


    question: [When are youing back?]


    She always replied with the same reassuring word: [Soon!]


    After putting down her phone, Estelle slipped into her clothes and left her room. Descending into the


    subterranean level twelve, she found Bernard cozily nestled on the sofa with hisdy, their lips locked


    in an endless kiss, lost in flirtation.


    Upon Estelle''s entrance, they didn''t bother to cease their intimate disy.


    Fulfilling her role as a dutiful housekeeper, Estelle averted her gaze, her head bowed as she began


    tidying the room, avoiding intruding on her employer''s private moments.


    The underground was a dust-free sanctuary, leaving little for her to clean. Estelle made her way to the


    bedroom to gather the woman''s discarded clothing.


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    By then, Bernard and hispanion had grabbed some wine, ready to enjoy a leisurely afternoon


    fishing by the riverbank.


    Estelle moved on to the study to clean. Theputer was on, its screensaver disying the Big Dipper


    against the vast night sky, with the constetion shining brightest of all.


    She stared at the image, suspecting that a man like Bernard wouldn''t have chosen such a screensaver


    without reason. Was it perhaps a longing for the stars he couldn''t see from his subterranean hideaway?


    Her instincts told her there was more to it. She seared the image of the Big Dipper into her memory,


    and while pretending to dust, she thoroughly searched the study once more.


    A voice echoed in her mind, Amiee’s voice: "Could the data be inside the mouse?"


    The first time Estelle had scanned the study with her invisible lenses, she''d detected an rm within


    the mouse. They all assumed Bernard had installed it to prevent others from tampering with his


    But maybe, just maybe, Raiden was the type to hide things in in sight, right inside that mouse.


    "How can we disable the rm?" Estelle whispered.


    Amiee hacked into theputer''s system, her voice grave: "We can''t. The rm will trigger if anyone


    but Bernard''s fingerprint touches the mouse."


    Her conviction was clear: "The data is inside the rm system."


    Estelle smirked, "What if Bernard were taken out of the picture first?"


    "Could be worth a shot," Amiee replied.


    Estelle''s thoughts raced. Not today, though. Bernard''s condition was off - he might have an explosive


    device imnted by Raiden as leverage, to ensure his own safety.


    Killing him could set off the bomb or trigger a microwave weapon. Too risky.


    But now that she knew where the data was, she was one step closer.


    And there was something about that Big Dipper screensaver that gnawed at her. She needed to mull it


    over.


    She cast them a cool nce and turned away.


    Back at the vi, Estelle hastily sketched the Big Dipper from her memory and scrutinized it carefully.


    Something was off.


    Shepared it against the constetion on her phone and confirmed her suspicion: two stars in


    Bernard''s version were slightly out of ce.


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    What was the significance of those two disced stars?


    Furrowing her brow, a spark of insight shed through Estelle''s mind. She quickly pulled up the entire


    map of Tripe.