Otieno arrived at Ren's apartment at seven fifty-eight.
He came in and looked at the room — the timeline wall, the table, the lamp, the city visible through the window in the early morning grey — and sat down without preamble. He had the quality of someone who had learned to move through spaces efficiently because efficiency was what the situation required and performance was not.
Hunter set a coffee in front of him and sat across the table.
He said: The person in dossier seven. Their primary output is the harmonic component. Dayo confirmed it from the frequency data last night.
Otieno said: The harmonic as primary output.
Yes, Hunter said.
Otieno was quiet for a moment. He looked at his forearms. At the discoloration that ran to both elbows.
He said: When I am in a space with activ
