Ruby. She checks automatically. Ruby Taylor. A work colleague. One of two presently on the call, the other being Chloe Williams. Jonathan Jones, Ruby Taylor and Chloe Williams. Why does that triad upset her? Why should it? The names are inoffensive, almost aggressively normal. She clamps an imaginary cigar between her teeth: It’s quiet—too quiet. She hesitates, then checks the Kraken help file. For a wonder, additional queries actually improve its obfuscation, adding random factors to its facades. Good, then. She groups the names, fires a query through Kraken into the network.