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"I am glad to hear it, Officer. We've had a lot on our plates, lately, so I am always glad to see you are ok." She waited until orders were placed and the waiter was away before setting a small manila folder down in front of Togusa. inside of the folder were a set of photos. She didn't bother to mention that they should be looked at circumspectly, as she imagined that that was obvious in its own right.

One of the pictures was of a ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of the Two Towers, pictures of the first Founder's day (back when there was only one founder known to the city), pictures of housing developments going up in Viea Village, and most importantly, there appears to be undercover photos of the development of the Retrospec building. These photos may be a bit obscure since they're probably taken from the bushes and what have you, but it's clear that the project was being done in the evening and bit by bit. Strangely, there is no construction equipment found in these photos, just the progress to get to the Retrospec building as it appears today.

"You may want to look at these."

Togusa is cautious about looking into the folder. He is able to temper his reaction, but his mind is absolutely racing. What the hell? What on earth could this mean? He is utterly staring at the photo of the construction of the Retrospec building for a few seconds, before he flips the folder closed again.

He reaches for his tea, as if nothing is the matter, raises it halfway to his lips, and speaks quietly. "Where did you get these? Because one of those photos, I would assume, is not physically possible."

She made sure that nobody was in earshot before speaking. "A small filing cabinet in the Recolle History Museum, in a basement archive. Someone helped me find it on its blueprint and I snuck in. The cabinet was labeled with special ink with the Retrospec logo," she explained, keeping her voice down and then taking a sip of her tea.

"Nobody was hurt... just so we're clear. We were very careful about that."

Togusa's eyebrows raise. The blueprint was for the History Museum the entire time. "And here I'd been considering a much more casual trip to the museum," Togusa quips.

He runs a hand over his face and quietly mutters, "Fucking hell." But there's a more pressing question, "Why would there have been a chance of someone getting hurt in a History Museum?" Ugh. Retrospec. "Outside of the damn subway, it doesn't make sense for this to be dangerous."

Well, she'd had two blueprints. The complete one had been the museum. She chuckled a little at his quip. "I'm sure there's an exhibit there that's worth seeing." An amused look reached her face and she shrugged. "There really wasn't a chance, unless someone caught us breaking in, which they didn't. It was a secured archive after all, and we weren't supposed to be there."

Made sense to her, at the very least. "But, what do you make of the photos? It feels strange, especially since I've heard talk of ghosts, that there seems to be some connection to Retrospec a long time ago."

Togusa flips back to the construction photos, and looks at them more intently. "How old would you say these are, then? Maybe I'm missing a piece, here, do you think the construction of the building happened longer than six months ago? Let's start there." If there's an unspoken assumption, Togusa will be intent about making it a spoken assumption, just to make sure they're on the same page.

"It... seems like the city was built at around the same time as Retrospec, if these photos are right. I had to take a city history course with my civics." She frowned some. "But again, we don't actually see any construction equipment. It is like it just came into being, decades ago. Almost like it's coming back into being."

"This is...problematic." Togusa has to think about how he wants to put this. "Because we still can't figure out the pattern of who can and who cant see that building. We finally got a stakeout of it, took both physical photos," Togusa nods towards the folder, "and digital ones, and the building showed up just fine, both forms of media."

"But. After a successful hack of the area's traffic cameras? The CCTV? You look at that block, and through that? It's an empty lot."

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