The flow of people through the station isn’t at its most absurd, but it’s not negligible either, and once she gets down on to the platform she knows the System will lose track of her at least intermittently, if it’s even looking. Kraken must have hacked the local infrastructure—a temporary brute-force attack, profoundly illegal, and useless in most cases because in a minute at most the System will overwrite a fresh install of itself in the local net—and given the impression that she went inside her building. Do they think she’s dead? No. They will not assume. They, or Lönnrot? But Lönnrot has had opportunities and has not taken them, indeed has been quite clear about wanting to help her. Lönnrot, going by the narrative in Hunter’s head, is a futuristic monster turned...what? Assassin? Saviour? A creature who is also looking for Hunter, and whose murder of Smith Hunter either predicted or proposed.