"There's almost no reason for a teenage girl to be hanging around the industrial end of the docks," Kathy said with a shrug. "But I needed to be able to move around and sneaking's a lot harder in the daytime than it is at night. So since I couldn't hide that I was there, I decided it would be better if I just made them discount my presence overall. I was there, but I didn't matter, you know?"

She's had a lot of practice with that, growing up. Though achieving that through ditziness was new.

"People don't guard themselves at all when they think you can't understand what they're doing. Like the guy that passed a hefty bribe over to a cop while I was standing there, engrossed with my phone and earbuds in. They didn't know that I didn't have any music playing or that I was writing down everything they said in Korean."