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ON THE WAY home in the train, I tried very hard to forget about the note in the jar.
But I wasn’t quite ready to discount it completely, so I set the jar on the corner of my desk in my office, just in case I needed it, or I got some inspiration, or a visitor saw it and remembered having seen it before, and went on with the rest of my work.
After lunch, I went to find Devlin in the hub. He had sent me a long list of documents and directories that I needed to check, to decide what level of security they needed.
The prospect of spending the whole afternoon doing this annoyed me, and after the morning’s waste of time, I was easy to annoy. I asked him, “Why don’t we just hire storage space and put all of it in the highest security? This sort of thing keeps happening, and we keep wasting t
