Not long after Sue left, Gloria found a er and curled up io take a quick break. The detective stopped speaking in his sleep and his breathing patterns seemed to be getting more and more steady, and she was not able to get anymore from him.

  Before long, Gloria heard a clear mumble and the detective’s breathing speeding up. She immediately stood up and got a gss of water and put it beside the bed. But before the detective actually awoke, her ph.

  “Hello?” Gloria walked out of the door and answered.

  “Is this Gloria Lee?” The man on the phone seemed to be someone from the unity collective - it was not the phone number, or that Gloria reized the person calling. It urely because of the impolite and impatient tohat was overly on in the district, amongst low level funaries.

  “Yes, who is this?”

  “This is a call from the South Eastern District of Poison City unity Collective, Safety Watd Patrols Division, Ritualistic Safety Department.” The man did not give Gloria his name: “I am calling regarding your meeting with Harmony Enforcer Fyman Nu today.”

  “What? I don’t remember having a meeting with an enfloria frowned, her head got clearer from hearing the word “Harmony Enforcer”, these were some of the most unwanted and unwele people in the district, for wherever they went, they brought intrusive and over zealous iigations and probing with them.

  “You do now. ” The man did not even ge his tone: “You have a meeting with him at 11 o’clo the m. You are to be present at least 15 minutes before the meeting and be in proper attire. Enforu will be inquiring about the i at the Fuman Coffin Home, so you will every reted dot to the meeting. If you would like to reschedule the meeting, you will o call us at least 48 hours in advaherwise this will be sidered an act of pt for the unity collective.”

  “I don’t have 48 hours, do I?” Gloria scoffed.

  “Then be here on time and bring all the required dots. Ahe normal process you are allowed to have some eyewitnesses of your choice present. But t them along you’ll o apply for the approval at least 24 hours ahead of time. Or you expedite the process after paying an express processing fee.”

  “...I uand. I will see to it.”

  “And as a general courtesy, please make sure all of your eyewitnesses are properly dressed as well. ” The man said with the same old dry tone: “Have a nice day. Please be on time for the meeting. After this call, please take the time to take a survey and tell us what you think about your experience.”

  When Gloria went bato the apartment, she saw that the detective was already awake and was chugging the water she left by the bed. And when he finished, he seemed to be slightly disturbed by the taste of the water. She did not bme him, the water in the building was not as as it could be. Even after running through a retively uncheap filter, there was still a bad taste lingering.

  “You’re awake now.” Gloria shook her head aered the apartment “Oh, and don’t mind the water - it’s only filtered once. We couldn’t afford better things here.”

  “It’s fine, better, even. Thank you very much, for savihe detective tried a few times and was finally able to push himself straight on the bed: “Where - where am I?”

  …

  The detective did not stay long and had to rush away, not even notig that Gloria took a few big bills from his wallet. He seemed distraught, it would appear to Gloria that the death of this “Sitch” had disturbed and saddened him to his core.

  Gloria had ara shift at the coffee shop today, she signed up for it herself because she he additional moo make rent and cover up the other expenses, now that she was not able to do her side job of being a temp watcher, and the other “additional ine” being mostly unstable.

  The early m phone call with Luoshan Zi was embarrassing, luckily her long time friend aor was quite uanding. She then called Tae Kuo a a message to Sue. Tae Kuo arently under simir scrutiny from the unity collective as well, but he was willing to be there for her, even though he would teically not be allowed in to testify. Sue did not respond, for she might still be asleep.

  She had copies of most of the reted files from the Fuman Coffin home at this temporary location, but she still o head baake sure she had all the files ready. And on her way back she could also visit the Fuman Coffin Home.

  The Fuman Coffin Home was still on lockdown. There were freshly pced tapes from the unity collective on the front and back doors as well as windows. There were some cut and sliced tapes on the ground, indig that some local children might have tried to py pranks on the pce.

  There were no signs or tapes on a spot where there was a hole in the wall, so she just hopped up, with half her left foot stepping on a hole to boost her shoulder just over the walls so she could look ihe yard.

  There were some red markers made of tape or red threads on the ground, and it seemed that there was a small bagua mirror pced in the yard, fag against the backdoor of the main room. Even with Qi trating on her eyes, she still could not see any traces of residual paranormal energy. Whatever the people from the unity collective did, it seemed to have worked.

  Though she had the thought for a moment, she did not actually have the heart to sneak in at all. It would be a high risk low reward kind of deal.

  Whe back to the apartment, she found that Sue was indeed asleep - her friend did not even take off her clothes and just passed out directly on the sofa. After finding the file, she put a b on her friend, left a hen headed out. She ime to prepare for the meeting, and she ime to get to know who this Fyman Nu was, and how they were, and whether she would get into any further trouble.