Kyle was sitting in his room, working at his computer when Jessi knocked on the door frame of his open door. He looked surprised and turned to see her, "Jessi, come in. I didn't hear you coming."

Jessi smiled, "You weren't paying attention. Usually I can't get to the door without you hearing me."

"I was looking at possible lattice geometries for your storage project," Kyle pointed at the screen.

"It's our project now," Jessi reminded him, 'are you making any progress?"

"This approach has been looking promising," he called up several displays. "I'm trying to use the barrier atoms to create quantum level boxes."

Jessi nodded, "I've been doing something similar with a channel strategy. Let me show you." She pulled up another chair and paged through a number of screens.

Kyle suggested, "Possibly some combination of the two approaches would work. If we built channels feeding into box structures it might facilitate the load and unload process."

"I still don't know how we are going to actually construct the lattice," Jessi said.

"It has to be self assembly, possibly electromagnetically driven, but until we know the goal there is no reason to work on that," Kyle said.

"As long as we don't design something that can't be built," Jessi smiled.

They took turns modifying their models until they reached an impasse. Kyle frowned and sat back, "We're just not there yet, but I think we are making progress."

"Yes," Jessi agreed, "but that's not why I came in here. I got my email on the Latnok meeting and thought we should take a look at it together. Have you gotten yours yet?"

"I haven't looked," He checked his email, "Yes, here it is." He opened up the display and they scrolled through several hundred pages of material as fast as the computer was able to do so." When they got to the end, Kyle said, "After all this time it's good to have access to so much real data. Latnok certainly has its fingers in a lot of places."

"Can we trust this data?" Jessi asked.

"Probably not completely," Kyle cautioned. "But it's a starting point. We are going to have to track all of the subsidiaries and check the numbers against other publicly available data. There are lots of places that someone could hide a lot of suspect activity. This is still highly abstracted. The devil will be in the details."

"There is also a lot of waste," Jessi observed. "Some of the drug development programs seem excessively expensive. There are certainly simpler ways of getting to clinical trials – at least from the summaries."

"That's going to be one of our tasks," Kyle said. "In any organization this large we are going to be able to see lots of opportunities for improvement. We can help improve the processes at a lot of places. This will take time."

"Our highest priority is finding out what Grace and the others want to hide from us," Jessi said.

"That's true," Kyle agreed. "I got caught up in all the numbers and the interesting problems. We got involved to try to find out who Latnok was and what they were planning. That still remains our most important goal."

"There are a lot of things here that Adam and Sarah would approve of," Jessi said, "Latnok isn't all bad."

"But someone killed Adam," Kyle said. "Maybe he was aware of parts of Latnok that someone wanted to keep secret."

"Keep secret from whom?" Jessi asked.

"Maybe the rest of Latnok," Kyle suggested. "I think that some of the board members genuinely want to do well. I think we are dealing with a group within Latnok that has a separate agenda." He sighed, "Of course Latnok could be what Adam said they were, 'a group of visionaries and humanitarians'."

"Not all of them," Jessi reminded him. "Sarah didn't trust them. We don't trust Grace."

"And some of the others as well," Kyle nodded. "If there is a separate group within the board then their activities will be hidden from the full board. We are going to have to examine these numbers further."

"We can do it," Jessi assured him. "We're a great team." She smiled at him with eyes bright.

Kyle smiled at her, "We certainly are. I don't think they realize just how much we can do with the information that they've given us."

"We have a week before the meeting," Jessi said. "That's plenty of time."

"Even with going back to high school," Kyle agreed.

Being on the Latnok board had given us a real opportunity to see what Latnok was doing, to 'follow the money'. I don't think even Grace realized what we could do with it. As Jessi said, we were a great team. Jessi still wanted us to be more than a team and Declan was right, she was amazing. Part of me wanted to take her in my arms and kiss her, and was sure that she wanted me to do so. The other part of me said that if I did, I was never going to be able to be with Amanda again. It was the stronger part and I just smiled at her. Amanda had feared that Jessi was my soul mate. The fortune teller had told me that I had missed the signs. Was she right, was I ignoring my soul mate? One thing was certain; Jessi was the only person in the world who was like me. What that would mean for us only time would tell.