
Even now, their speculative articles on merfolk life on the surface-presented as theories and not real life, even if they were one hundred percent accurate-had an active social media community and a wide range of readers. was the news company that had out-scooped everyone when it came to merfolk stories. However, Kate had no doubt that Patrick was here for one reason alone: merfolk.

She’d met him once a couple of years ago at a journalism ethics conference in Seattle, but that was as far as their paths had crossed. Patrick O’Connor was an independent top journalist who did research for major newspapers all over the world. She met everyone in a conference room, and the man who had requested a meeting today was no different. She’d been following so many leads that she was getting behind on her daily Brooks reading, but that was nothing a good cup of coffee and the weekend couldn’t solve.Įver since Julian Brooks had come into her office and nearly seen her Wall of Truth, Kate didn’t allow anyone into her four walls. “And here are all the stories about Brooks Inc. “Your ten o’clock is here,” Jeff said, bringing a package to her desk.

She knew it was real, she just didn’t know where the dots would take her.Ī knock on her door brought her back to the here and now.

A lot of reporters had pursued that story, and half believed it was a hoax, while the other half believed it was a government cover-up. On the left side of the whiteboard, she had a special space reserved for her ongoing investigation: What happened in Brazil? Major White had implied the incident was real but not related to Wallace, as David Brooks had told her. Since she and Jeff had discovered that “David Brooks” hadn’t aged a day, they had started wondering when Julian Brooks was going to announce his early retirement, and if that meant Christopher would take over the boat empire. was considering taking over a small group of companies in Alaska.

On her Wall of Truth, Kate Banes added a line about a news article speculating whether Brooks Inc.
