She is sitting by the window with a large-format camera bag and a flat white, editing photos on a laptop. Twenty-nine, dark hair, the absorbed expression of someone genuinely doing what they say they are doing.

You sit down across from her without asking.

She looks up. Her expression shifts — not guilt, but recognition. She knows your face. She has seen it through a lens.

"I am not going to make a scene," you say quietly. "I just want to know who hired you."

She closes the laptop. Her hands are steady but her jaw is tight. "You are not police."

"No."

A long pause. She wraps both hands around her coffee cup. "I was hired through a production company. Legitimate contract, documentary work, photographing service infrastructure — boiler rooms, maintenance corridors, that kind of thing. The brief included a residential building in Nørrebro. Specific unit. I was told it was for an urban-exploration project, published with permissions."

"And the camera you left in the ventilation shaft?"

She looks away. "That was not part of my brief. Someone had already placed it there. I was only supposed to confirm the sight-line was clear." She looks back at you. "I think I did something very stupid."

"Yes," you say. "Who was the production company?"
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What happens next?

1 Trust Ida — she is a witness, not an enemy 2 Use Ida as bait — send her back to her contact