Chapter 17: The Titan Fund's Name

The file Anna had left on my desk was labeled, in her handwriting, CASTELLAN — PRELIMINARY OBSERVATION LOG and it was forty-three pages long.

Forty-three pages for eight months of work. Anna Chase did not waste paper.

I found it at 7:06 a.m., before anyone else was in. She hadn't handed it to me. She'd set it in the center of my workstation with a paper clip through the top left corner and a single Post-it that said, in her same handwriting: *Return before COB. Do not copy.* No signature. No instruction on what to do with what I learned. Anna operated on the assumption that competent people extrapolated.