There's a ghost outside the office door on whatever day it is that Vandelin happens to be conducting his work for the Northern Powers office--at least, a ghost insofar as Kit has done an admirable job of ensuring he hasn't seen or been seen by Vandelin since their last conversation. (The one that changed everything.)

But he's a grown-ass adult, and he can't think of anyone else in the project better suited to the task at hand than Vandelin. So here he is, struggling not to feel a little like he's forcing himself to walk across glass when he knocks on the door.