Moreover, and worse for him, Mara also knew an obsessive fan of his movies. She isn't just familiar with what people wrote about actors in a general sense — she remembers plenty of things they wrote about Edgar de Leon.

There's a pang of secondhand embarrassment in her chest and she glances back towards the door of the dining hall. She stops fiddling with her phone.

"I like controlling the commodities," she says flatly.