Lin Xia follows the light. What she finds in the maintenance shaft is not what she expected.

Vice President JD Vance and Iran's Parliament Speaker met face-to-face in Islamabad on Saturday — the highest-level direct contact between Washington and Tehran since the ceasefire. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.

Lin Xia finds what James Hollis missed. It changes everything.

An Iranian delegation landed in Islamabad on Friday as US negotiators prepared to arrive, marking the first direct talks between the two sides since airstrikes escalated the five-week-old conflict. Pakistan's quiet diplomacy may have just pulled the world back from the brink.

Lin Xia makes a decision. The basement has other ideas.