NORA
Ivan Kazlov was an assistant professor specializing in ‘Operator Algebras, a branch of Functional Analysis closely connected with Topology,’ according to the UNR faculty website. Dr Sigurdssen’s email said he was ‘inappropriately flirty with female colleagues,’ so Nora wore her hair down and did not ask Wikipedia about Operator Algebras. She felt like her sixteen-year-old self, scoring cigarettes off Sully, but she pushed that thought aside.
Professor Kazlov’s office door was open, and Nora saw him in his chair, a stocky man in his forties with a receding hairline and a neat goatee. He was boasting about a round of golf to someone Nora couldn’t see. When he saw her he clocked her from head to toe and his smile landed just on the far side of friendly.
Nora leaned against the doorjam
