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Grace was getting ready for lunch. Well, it was nearly lunchtime, and she was ready, was hungry, and the approach of Bong surprised her. Although they worked in the same building, and together, they were poles apart in function and geography. Bong was a Detective Constable in the third floor Serious Crime Squad, and she worked in the basement of Scotland Yard, the Archives, and handled all the jibes about being a geek file clerk like water off… After the continual adrenaline rush of the City of London, she appreciated the calm of Archives. Took pleasure in the smell of musty old boxes, the allure of their content, the idea nobody had touched some of them for fifty years or a lot more, before transferring them onto computer files. She especially liked adding her assessments; a system sh
