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Lili10:09 am
The refrain of Linkin Park’s song Numb rose above the noisy editorial office. Lili’s colleagues stared her down viciously until she finally realized that it was Bence's phone that was ringing. It wasn’t like they weren’t watching every step she took, anyway. There was an unusual, depressing silence every time she started talking with someone. They kept quiet in the hope that they might catch drift of a rumor or two, which they could chew on later while smoking or having lunch. Lili didn’t rule out that some people might have been gossiping about her via emails around the office. She knew it was a journalist’s habit, and wasn’t angry about it, since finding a dead person in your friend’s apartment wasn’t common.
“Hey!” she answered the call, whispering.
She didn’t even ha
