(Author's POV)
It took Alice three days to find her.
The first lead came from a receptionist at a mid-sized biotech firm in the financial district - Aether Life Sciences, as it turned out. The woman behind the front desk studied the reconstructed image for a long moment, then nodded slowly.
"I recognize her," she said. "She used to work in the secretarial pool. But she left a while back. Her employee file's been removed from the system."
Alice pressed for a name. The receptionist hesitated, then gave it.
Aurora.
With a name, the rest came quickly. A few phone calls, a search through professional directories, and Alice had traced her to the biotech research division of Everett Group, where she was listed as a researcher.
When Alice reported this to Joyce that evening, the old woman s
