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I FOLLOWED ODETTE out of the room through the hall to the reception area. She opened a door for me behind the reception counter. It gave access to a narrow hallway with store rooms on both sides: cleaning equipment, laundry bags and surplus items of furniture all stood crammed into the small and darkened rooms.
Odette took me to a room that was bigger than the others, at the end of the hallway. It had windows near the ceiling. I guessed it had once been a laundry, but now it had been turned into the hotel’s communication hub. A cabinet against the wall contained all the on-site data storage and a long desk against the other wall was filled with equipment for surveillance and communication. It disturbed me that most of it was unfamiliar to me.
A screen at the far end displayed the inte
