"Used the old Sebastian charm on them, did we?" God, it feels good to slide back into banter again. Especially when it pivots away from talking or even thinking about STEM.

With a wry smile, Joseph flips a few more pages in his notebook. "Actually, it's lucky you found me here. I've been following a series of clues to one of those wreaths and they led me here. 'Place the ring upon the spindle,' is the last one. I'm not sure what it's referencing yet. But between the two of us, surely we can figure this out." Castellanos and Oda weren't legends in the KCPD for nothing.