He came to disprove her with spreadsheets and zoning complaints. Twelve models later, the only thing he can't explain is why he keeps coming back.
Data scientist Marcus Cole moves next door to Wren Ashby on the reasonable assumption that a neighbor who runs a magical consultancy is a problem for zoning, not for him personally. He is wrong about this within the first week. Wren has a waiting list and outcomes his models cannot account for. Marcus sets out to find the methodology behind the results. Wren has been watching skeptics try to find it for eleven years. She finds him interesting in the way she finds locked things interesting — not trying to open him, noticing where he's stuck. Marcus is on version twelve of his original spreadsheet. He is not getting closer to disproving her. He is getting closer to something else.
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