23 Meimi I stand in the Underground lab alongside Chloe, Zoe, and Rakkie. Above our heads hangs the big board, which is the monitor where Chloe wanted to track stuff. Of course, we’re using fake names for all the milestones. Godwin is on a need-to-know basis and, turns out, he doesn’t need to know much. We’ve been disagreeing about how those milestones should be listed. And we’ve been doing that for an hour now. “It should go alphabetically,” declares Chloe. “The deadlines for my work should be listed first, then Meimi, and then Zoe.” Zoe, as it turns out, has a real problem with being last. Why? Her name starts with a Z. Seems she always got last in line at school or whatever. And it also seems that if I had my memory back, I’d recall all this myself and wouldn’t need to be reminded.

