"You've already worked out her position," he said.
"I've worked out the most likely position given the data," I said. "Whether it's hers remains to be seen."
"It will be," he said.
I looked at Isolde tracking the light.
"Yes," I said. "Probably."
I called Marisol. She had already seen the note — the research inbox was copied to her address, per her request in December, because she was the one who had found the Edinburgh team in the first place and had been waiting four months for the first data point.
"E-7," she said, when she picked up. Not hello. Straight to it.
"Yes," I said.
"Three of four," she said. "In the preliminary note. Before the developmental data is even available."
"Yes."
A pause.
"Aveline," she said. "She would have read the 2009 paper too. She would have found t
