The mentorship program started on the second Saturday of February. Fiona's assistant emailed me the mentor assignment: Dr. Hannah Reyes, a researcher at the coastal hydrology lab, on the Bell Harbor side of the water. The name Reyes was a coincidence, or I told myself it was. I checked the lab website and the photo was of a woman in her sixties with short gray hair and a lab coat, and I decided the coincidence didn't matter.
The first session was three hours. Dr. Reyes handed me a data set on salinity readings from the harbor, ten years of them, and asked me to find the anomaly. I found it in forty minutes, because it was in the first sixty rows and the pattern was obvious once you plotted it.
"Very good," she said, unimpressed. "Now find the second one."
The second one took me the rest
