She checked her e-mail, but there wasn’t anything new. She wasn’t surprised as she didn’t receive a lot of e-mails. None of her acquaintances knew about her extensive technological literacy. Most never imagined Mara knew the first thing about computers. Everyone assumed she avoided them, an ancient relic, afraid of technology and the changes it brought.
Despite that, over the span of the past year, she’d started receiving messages from someone she didn’t know, and though she could easily track down most people online, she hadn’t been able to discern his identity. The messages were short and had been a little cryptic initially. There was an almost playful, jaded quality to them which intrigued Mara and she found they reminded her of herself. As time passed, the mystery sender started sendi
