I didn’t want to get caught in Bran’s room, at least not until I knew how to spin it (tell the appropriate lie). That meant having a better understanding of what was going on. I left Bran’s room as I had entered—as if I belonged there—and headed back to my room to run the background check on Dana. Her last name was Thompson after all, and entering her date of birth had me looking at her report within a few minutes. There were a few variations on her name listed, not that uncommon even for honest people. Typos or odd misspellings go unnoticed and get entrenched pretty often, even where financial organizations are concerned. Of course, if you’re not an honest person, purposefully using a plausibly inadvertent variation on your name or birthdate can make it easier to hide what you do. Especia
