Zinnia was a rather tall woman, almost 190cm tall, with long curly brown hair and brown eyes. She was in her mid-forties and everyone knew how capable she was in defending herself after years training in martial arts and military duty. Though she liked to smoke a cheap mark of cigarettes.

She never had children but she had been married once and also had been in a different engagement. Neither stories, and others, worked out in the end, because to Zinnia her work was definitely more important.

Oleander was sifting through her documents when the call came. Zinnia was the Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI, she and her subordinates mostly occupied themselves with solving cases of missing people. The call had been passed to her because the caller claimed to have vital information about the location of a kidnapped person.

“Hello, Sgt. Zinnia Oleander here. With whom do I have the pleasure to speak?”

“..Track this call. If you do, you will find the location of Lily White and her two kidnappers. She is still alive.”

Zinnia frowned. She didn’t take well to prank calls, but if this turned out to be all true and she just ignored it, she wouldn’t possibly be able to forgive herself.

“Hello? Sir? Sir, are you still there?”

She tried to talk with the caller once again, but while the call itself was still there, the person who made the call seemed gone. Zinnia sighed and put the phone on her desk. She looked up and saw her squad members watching her, so she just motioned them to come to her desk.

“Frederick, track this call while it’s still connected. Samantha, search for any missing person by the name “Lily White.” Marco, assist Samantha for now, then switch to Frederick. I’m going to talk to the Director about this.”

As Zinnia stood up, the others walked away and began their work. The Director’s office was some floors above them so she just took a lift. She needed to talk with the Director to ask for a possible need to dispatch some agents to break in the kidnappers’ house. Zinnia lightly knocked on the door and opened it.

“Come in.”

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