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She sat up straight and sipped her coffee Thankfully it was delicious

Kara raised her cup “I am now”

Thirteen

Work ork Right now that’s all Kara wanted, especially considering she was seated across froan

“So you’ve been here for three weeks,” Kara said Her elboere propped up on the table as she held her cup with two hands “What do you have?”

Jere he did often Kara used to think it was cute Right now she wasn’t so sure

“For the first teeks I didn’t find much,” he replied “But in the last few days…”

“Things have ramped up”

“Yes”

He reached down into a briefcase and returned with a familiar red folder Kara had to chuckle She’d never seen Jeremy with a briefcase before, but somehow it suited him

“This,” he said, extracting so that I found”

He pushed so across the table, between the both of theht it over to her side

It was an old, dog-eared, photograph Not quite a tintype, but one of the earliest developed color ies and browns and grays A frozen slice of time

In the photo, aa turn-of-last-century suit and tie His hands were flat on the table, palms down

“Who’s this?”