C20 The start of events

Date = 7 April (about 1 in the morning)

Two days and a bit — that’s how long the robot has been avoiding me

Place = San Francisco (Inferno)

POV - Aria

“I miss you so much,” Mel swoons into her phone, her voice dripping with the kind of warmth that could thaw an iceberg. She’s talking to her lover, and here I am, standing ten feet away