"That would be great, if you could. I didn't want to just call it blindly. I couldn't be sure if it was meant for me, if it was a mistake." She sighs. "Or, and this is probably like way paranoid of me, but I also thought, what if it was some kind of test? Like to check if I'm in the habit of calling numbers people slip to me."

The militia is so interested in their cohort, and she doesn't know why. It's possible they're trying to track behavior, what people would do with a mysterious phone number.

"But then--what if it's legit? If someone genuinely wanted me to have that number I don't want to just ignore it entirely."