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“What do you know? Sophie Calbet is back.” Julius reacted to my announcement in a way I’d never seen from him before; namely, for 220 milliseconds a look of surprise flashed over his face. I well knew what surprise looked like since I’d seen it often enough on the faces of people gathered in Julius’s office when he solved what appeared to be an unsolvable crime. I’ve even seen it on myself. Well, on my imagined self, since I’m a one-by-two-inch piece of advanced technology. Thanks to my highly sophisticated neural network, that’s twenty years more advanced than anything now