I almost certainly could have guessed this would happen, but writing this story is going slowly. I have a greater respect for mystery writers; the need to keep track of all the threads you’ve started and prevent them from becoming threads left dangling is more pressing here than in other genres (where I can just claim they’re sequel hooks).

Entirely unrelated: when I’m typing in Linux (with its wonderful compose key support), I generally employ accents in words where they’re present, such as ‘cliché’. For some reason, I almost always leave ‘naive’ alone, though it’s just as easy for me to type ‘naïve’. I wonder why that is.