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"I started working here as a secretary in 1952," says Gwendoline, apparently in pain. "I hadn't been working for this company for eighteen months before my untimely passing. Oh, there was nothing sinister about it: I choked to death on a cherry tomato during my lunch break. Yet I couldn't move on to…to wherever spirits tend to go. The dark energies that infest this place held me here, and now I've wandered these hallways for more than fifty years. Strange, to be surrounded by people, and yet to feel so alone…" The woman's voice is airy, flat. "And then, three months ago, I was summoned away, into a garden—the rooftop garden, over at Psion Industries. Oh, it was so wonderful to see trees again, if only just for a few minutes! At Psion, they have a medium, a very nice man. He said he would try to free me from this state—as long I gave them information about MetaHuman while I was waiting for them to succeed…"

You have a ghost in your company. One that is feeding information to your main competitor, drop by drop.

"If Gwendoline wants to inform Psion about our activities, there's little we can do to stop her," says Claudette. "We can only manage to contain her in the short term."