The contract negotiations were finished, but I lingered at Enigma for a while longer.

Surprisingly, I hit it off rather well with Ms. Book, if I could call her that.

Ms. Book, it turned out, was also a training academy graduate. Between talking about that and discussing the Abyss, there was never a dull moment in our conversation. And honestly, she did most of the talking—probably around 70-80% of it.

Once she started speaking, it was like a floodgate had opened, yet it wasn’t boring in the slightest. Perhaps it was because she had a knack for visual aids; when …