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REHAN WASN’T THERE the next morning either.
Mikandra sat in the cubicle staring at the screen but it remained unresponsive. When she went to sign off at the counter, the woman said for the second day in a row that there was no charge to the account in the same cheerful voice she had used the day before. Mikandra had trouble meeting her eyes, and refraining from asking what could have happened. Was anything bad going on in Miran? What had Rehan meant Something has come up?
She went to work in the library, replaying horrible scenarios in her mind, and she had to slap herself for getting worked up. Likely, the truth was simple. Maybe the unrest had spread and he couldn’t reach the office anymore. Maybe he was busy with the court case.
At midday, she wandered around the marketplace hopi
