Noctura

thirty two

seungyoon

THE AIR is chillier than it has been.

I move through the streets, my hood up and my mask over the lower half of my face. My eyes scan the numbers on the buildings as I pass by, looking for a specific number.

Once I see it, I turn right and walk up to the front door. There's a speaker on the left side with buttons next to last names.

I move down the list of last names until I find the one I'm looking for.

Evans.

I hit the button.

It lights up.

I look down at my watch and see that it's almost one thirty. She should still be home. She doesn't go into work until four.

"Hello?" Her muffled voice comes through the speaker.

"Teagan," I say. "It's Yoon."

There's a long moment of silence.

"Let me up, please."

More silence.

I take a deep breath.

"Okay," she answers quickly.

The speaker turns off and I hear a lock click.

I open the door and move through the apartment building until I reach the stairs. I go up to the second floor and stand in front of apartment number 2C.

Before I even get a chance to knock, the door opens and I see her standing there, her auburn hair falling to her shoulders, her blue eyes filled with intensity.

"How the hell did you find me?"

I give her a small smile. "I think it would be better if we discussed this inside. May I come in?"

She stares at me for a long moment. Finally, she sighs and opens the door wider for me.

I step into her apartment. There's a small kitchen on the left and a living area ahead of me. On the right, there's a door that I'm guessing leads to her bedroom.

Teagan closes the door and then turns to me, her arms crossed over her chest. "How did you find me?"

"I told you I would find you, remember?"

"Yeah, but my apartment? You didn't even know my name when you came up to me at the AAN building."

"How do you know?" I look into her eyes. They're ablaze with anger and distrust.

She sighs. "So, you knew who I was and where I lived. And you're not going to tell me how?"

All I do is give her a slight grin.

Teagan drops her arms to her sides.

"Do you have what I want?"

She shakes her head, moving over toward a desk in the living area. "I don't have everything you want, but I have some of it."

I move over to her as she's digging through her desk, pulling out a file.

Once she has everything, she turns around. She gestures to the small table in her kitchen so we both go sit down together. She lays the file out in front of us.

"I had to dig pretty deep into the AAN archives and what I'm doing is not something the AAN would be proud of me doing, but... I found some things about Eunmi."

She hands me one of the papers so I take it and my eyes scan over it.

Mizuta Lab is written at the top. Underneath that, there's a paragraph of information about the lab. And under that, there is information about experiments.