Once Upon a Changeling by V. J. Chambers

Author:V. J. Chambers [Chambers, V. J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781620071328
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2013-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

Marcos thrust a stack of computer paper printouts into my hands at lunch. I hadn’t even made it through the line to get my tray, but he found me and gave it to me. “What’s this?” I asked.

“Cindi’s emails,” said Marcos. “I figured out her password.”

“Wow,” I said. “Great.” I looked down at them. There was a lot of email here. “Have you read through any of these?”

“Some,” said Marcos. “A lot of it isn’t really that interesting or doesn’t have anything to do with what we’re after.”

I nodded. “Look, find us a table, and I’ll meet you there in a minute.” I handed the stack of email back to him.

That day for lunch we were having pizza. Hence, the line was very long. It took me a few minutes to get my tray and get to Marcos, but when I did, I was ready to start going through that email.

“So, did you sort these in any way?” I asked him.

“Not really,” he said. “They were in the computer from most recent to least recent, so that’s how I printed them out.”

“Cool.” I realized I hadn’t thanked him yet. “Hey, um, this is really awesome of you,” I said. “Thank you so much.”

“It’s nothing,” said Marcos. “Believe me. Here, why don’t we just divide the stack in half? You take one half and I’ll take the other, and we’ll start going through them.”

Sounded like a good idea. I took the bottom half of the stack. Puck arrived at our table around that point. After greetings and explanations, she took a stack of email as well, and the three of us poured over them while eating. My stack was from two springs ago, so the messages were ridiculously outdated. There were several from me, and they were embarrassing. A few from Kara mentioned Cindi having “an affair” in a joking tone (I thought, but tone is difficult to detect in email messages), but other than that, they didn’t have any helpful messages or clues.

Puck apparently had the jackpot, because she ran into messages from last August and September. When it became clear that both Marcos and I had irrelevant email messages, we split up Puck’s stack and started reading.

I read the first email at the top of my list:

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