章 406: The New Deal, Part 1

This wasn't making any sense. There was a line of causality here somewhere, a paper trail I could follow to accurately pinpoint how things lead up to this moment.

But I wasn't no snoopy detective, I didn't have no notice board cluttered with thumbtacks and leads that I could follow, so how exactly Sera ended up knocking hard in the middle of a dark and stormy night was a mystery that rightfully earned its place in a YouTube top ten.

Unasked, unprompted, and very much not wanted, the quiet purple lady wandered on through the doorway - and on impulse, like a doorman greeting a valued guest, I stepped away to the side and simply allowed her through… because goddamn, what the hell else was I gonna do?