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The Report

The official report on the night aboard the FS Vindel

There is a report about the night aboard the FS Vindel when Lukas died. In the ICRU archive in Hamburg, Lena Voss asks for the “Incident Report, Ship’s Command” and learns that it isn’t kept there: the ship’s command sends its report to the shipowner and to the investigating authority. Those involved can request it from them. Lena was involved. For eight years she hasn’t requested it, afraid of what it might say. She read the log of that night once and then locked it away.

First encounter

• First noticed: a line on the archive screen, “Document not in holdings.”
• Object in the scene: Lena’s slip of paper with the reference “FS Vindel, Incident Report, Ship’s Command,” which Frau Bergmann reads aloud

Connected to

• Lena VossOceanographer at the ICRU in Hamburg, following a falling line
• Kai SörensenFS Nordmark captain, eight years without a word to Lena
• FS VindelThe research vessel of the night Lukas died
• 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.