It was easy, but it was consuming, for Hayes to cross-reference Dani Gwynne’s online posts with the people she chatted with, then sort them by locality. The program had run most of the night while he tried, and failed, to sleep. Now the printer spit out a series of lists comprised of the people she’d chatted directly with, then cross-referenced by the different places she visited regularly. Contact wasn’t always public. “Going private,” taking a discussion to the privacy of email, was a common practice throughout the Internet. He and Willow had gone private soon after meeting, though she’d continued to politely but firmly resist the meeting Hayes was determined to have with her.
The printer finished its work and Hayes gathered up the sheets, shuffling through them for anything that might
