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become so comfortable being watched, it almost doesn’t register. I’ve seen it in my work; time after time I’ve caught someone because they forgot to look for surveillance. What reason could there be for wanting to be unobserved?”
“Mental illness. An examination of the brain might show something.”
“Only the coroner can examine him—and for some reason he won’t. I checked. The body is in a stasis chamber awaiting autopsy. No exam has been scheduled. It’s been days, and there aren’t any other cases waiting.”
“Don’t these things have to be done quickly,” she said. “Even stasis doesn’t stop time completely.”
I nodded. “And yet there he is, on ice, and nobody is doing anything about it. He’s a void that things fall into—a black hole that keeps this case from moving
