(Originally Posted Wednesday 7-31-19)
So, first thing that caught my eye was the description, ‘tired business woman’.
I’m thinking she’s traveled somewhere for work but not out of the country, still in the US.
She’s set up in a hotel, hence the simple desk. I didn’t notice the plants until I started writing but they got me thinking. Maybe they’re hers. Maybe she brings a pair of them whenever she travels and keeps them in her office. She always has one on her left and right of her computer.
Maybe she likes plants. She’s young, single, and has a nice apartment that’s very sleek and modern with a minimalist style, except for plants. She has a dozen? But each one is a different kind?
That could work. Anyway, that wasn’t even my original idea either. She’s not feeling well in this pic and I’m thinking because she’s been poisoned. Probably when she got off the airplane, someone was waiting for her.
She works for either DIA or NSA. One of the intelligence agencies but not the CIA. Something more discreet. She’s traveling to a special conference with top-secret work? Someone wants her work but can’t let it be known they took her work so they poison her to make her sick.
She’s the kind of person who never gets sick either, always shows up on time at work. First to arrive, last to leave sort of thing. This is a big deal and she can’t believe this is happening to her right now.
When she realizes she can’t power through it, she heads to bed early and that’s when our thief(thieves?) make their move and download whatever is on her laptop.
Follow up questions would be, who did it? Why? What’s the intel? What happens to her the next day once she’s feeling better? Does she ever get blamed for the breach?
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