I went up to the guest rooms and down the main hall, and I asked four people, and every one of them said some version of I saw her earlier.

The service corridor runs behind the kitchen toward the loading area.

I went down it because I had run out of other places, and about halfway along I heard something behind a door with a laminated sign on it that said LAUNDRY — STAFF ONLY.

I tried the handle and it didn’t move.

“Hannah?”

There was a silence that went on long enough that I hit the door with the flat of my hand.