Out on the highway, she stays to the right-hand lanes and keeps her speed down. She’s not used to riding the cycle at night, and her mind’s so full of questions she can hardly focus on driving. She keeps trying to tell herself that there must be some absurdly simple explanation for the file she found on the Metascience Group network, but something deep inside rebels every time. She knows the kinds of files the group keeps and how those files are organized. The group’s master budget is clearly labeled "MASTER BUDGET" and it resides in its own directory along with related datafiles, and none of those files are encrypted because there’s no reason for them to be. The group’s two ranking scientists, Dr. Liron Phalen and Dr. Benjamin Hill, have their own sets of files related to the budget in their own personal datastores, clearly labeled.