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The Bracelet

Lena’s bracelet, worn for eight years, never explained

Lena Voss has worn a bracelet on her wrist for eight years and never talks about it. It has grown warm from her skin, and that warmth is the only way you can tell it’s there. It first appears in the first chapter, on a morning at the ICRU in Hamburg. On the crew list for a research cruise into the North Atlantic, under ship’s command, is a name Lena hasn’t spoken aloud in eight years: K. Sörensen. Anna asks whether she’s going. Lena feels the bracelet on her wrist and says: “I’m going.”

First encounter

• First noticed: that it can only be felt by its warmth
• Quote: “that she had worn for eight years and never talked about”

Connected to

• Lena VossOceanographer at the ICRU in Hamburg, following a falling line
• Anna KesslerLower Elbe emergency manager who has known Lena thirteen years
• ICRU HamburgLena’s institute in Hamburg, looking out over the Elbe

Spoiler-free. This describes the starting point of the book named, without its major twists or resolutions.