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Ella Danika sent the first of the four family names three days later, a woman named Charlotte Ashworth-Reyes, whose parents had died in a house fire eight years earlier that insurance investigators had ruled electrical, despite a system that had passed inspection only six months before. "She's agreed to meet," Danika said, over the phone, Kylian and I both listening from the study again. "Cautiously. She's spent eight years being told she was paranoid for asking questions nobody wanted to answer. I had to convince her I wasn't another dead end." "Where," I asked. "Neutral ground. A private room at a hotel two hours from here, no names on the reservation, no connection to either of you visible from outside the meeting. I think it's important you're both there. She needs to see she's not

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