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Whew. The column of smoke Shirley and Margaret investigated was not a crashed-and-burned dirigible. That would have been bad.
It appears that the bored Russian grad students guarding a supply depot for said dirigible went on one last vodka bender and in the process dropped a lantern that set the coal store on fire. Idiots.
The other hypothesis is a lightning strike.
Signs of the grad students’ departure did not go in an obvious direction, however, so there’s some part of the story we don’t have.
Li being Li, we may have missed something obvious and sinister in our investigation. Well, no, not necessarily… Li could just be enjoying watching us gobble down red herrings. That does seem to be a favorite occupation of hers…
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