Chapter Ten
“What do you mean, you don’t know where she came from?” Sergei asked the old man standing in front of him. “You gave her your coat, socks, and a pair of your shoes.”
Micha turned his sock hat in his hand. He looked back and forth between Dimitri and Sergei. His old hands trembled slightly as he looked down at them. He had known immediately when he was summoned to the office what it was going to be about.
“I was cleaning up in the atrium,” Micha explained again. “One minute I was alone and the next, the young lady was there.”
“And you didn’t see anyone else?” Sergei asked sardonically. “No other workmen? No other containers? No bright light?”
“Why would there be a bright light?” Micha asked, confused. “No, I did not see any of those things,” he quickly added when Sergei’s f
