And in that shift, Natalia's eyes flick open for an instant, a simple reaction.

Hope does know something, but is trying to keep Natalia out of it. ... Could they be...? She wants to believe, but things being the way they are, she doesn't have a good code that would help. She pulls out her cell phone and hums. "Still, it's a shame. That computer friend of mine is likely to explode at me for stopping."

She begins to carefully fold up the map.