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various gray shaded wisps as if she willed it to do so. The particles of gray began to colorize and formed a sidewalk, rectangular shapes materialized into a grocery store, clothing store, bookstore, and café.
    People materialized into the space frozen in time. Jerry and 07760 appeared last. Jerry held the briefcase. She paused and soaked in the information. The motivation was the most important piece. If she understood his motivation, she could piece everything together. She paced around the frozen scene and stared directly into 07760’s eyes. He looked a little too alert. His eyes began to shift to look a little hazy. Pleased with her modification, she turned to her errant protégé. Jerry looked determined, like a character in one of his spy novels. His features began to shift until he became neutral. Then they shifted again to confidence. There had to be confidence in his eyes. Normally, such outrageous displays of emotion were not befitting an agent, but he knew no one was around to watch. She knew him well enough to know he valued emotion.
    She often mused about what people were like when they weren’t being watched. The problem with her musings was that no one would ever know as soon as someone was watching. She could set up hidden recording equipment, but the equipment would change the situation. The person would be observed, and things changed by being observed at the quantum level. For all she knew, human decision making was a complex quantum level event deep inside the molecules of the brain. The person may not know about the recording equipment, but their atoms would. The electrons in a person's atoms would be somewhere as opposed to many places. Could behavior be linked to a quantum level event? Could the random firing of a neuron in the brain be linked to a precise arrangement of electrons?
    She wondered if people could sense when their electrons were in a probability state as opposed to a specific location. When there was nothing to observe a person, did their personality take an amorphous state? Then once they were being observed, did they conform to the behavior of the particular configuration of electrons? She believed that an unobserved person could live in many possible universes at the same time. Their personality was in an amorphous state making choices, and others observed the choices. So once observed, their choice has permanency on their personal timeline. Jerry chose treason. She had observed that decision thus putting her into this universe. But is there another universe out there where they were working on their next case because she observed a different choice?
    Her belief allowed her to choose a state of being somewhere in between free will and fate. While she couldn’t control the universes that came to seek her out, she could decide the path in the given set of circumstances. For example, she might not have chosen her career path if the circumstances in life had been different. People liked to believe she became an agent because she had a tough childhood. Her childhood was typical and average. Her decision to join the agency was because of her interest in history. Humans had a propensity for atrocity, and she could do her part to prevent any more violence from entering the history books. Maybe there was another universe with a person with her same genetic makeup who couldn’t care less about history. Quantum physics said electrons existed in a probability cloud, so why couldn’t universes? She could also be mixing religion into her physics, which would cause some physicists to roll their eyes and tell her not to over think it.
    She was about to make another decision that could alter her entire universe. She needed to make a decision about Jerry. He went rogue, but it wasn’t clear as to why. Because of their history, she knew her supervisors were watching her. Despite their history, she was determined to find the reasons for his actions. She was too experienced to act with anything but