Libraries are all about order.

> I think that alone is explanation enough for the hostile alien's reaction to things.

I said why it was there: To Kill Lee Bookman. So, the bureaucracy wasn't was.

> Still, I hope he (she? it?) doesn't take things out on our heroine before she navigates the red tape necessary to get some answers.

I consider it a he & Catherine won't be taken out, but she will be moved out of harms way.


Ok. I got to write it first!