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That is Hien, isn't it?

So... The events lineup so that it's Chapter 7 -> New Chapter 3, right???

Officially, on the Bureau paperwork, the Fadens are ‘being dispatched to check the status of an important AWE site personally due to exclusive knowledge and expert knowledge on the local area’, but it’s really just a fancy way to say they’re on a long overdue vacation together to go back home. It being Bureau business, however, means the FBC is paying for everything— motel stay, food, snacks, gas, the rental car— and that they both continue to get paid while they’re out.

Dylan, as well as successfully arguing that he should get some form of backpay or compensation at the least for his years in the Houses, has also been bestowed the role ‘Supervisor of Houseplant Wellbeing’. It is, technically, a job Jesse invented, and ultimately just a title to land him on official payroll in some capacity to appease the bureaucratic rules. But Jesse encouraged him to genuinely go care for the plants around the Bureau if he wanted, mentioning that they liked to be talked to. He later found a note from Ahti requesting the same job be completed, and made a pretty decent show of dragging his feet and complaining about how ridiculous talking to plants seemed. That is, until he finally went and tried it.