In “The Stilt Fishermen of Kathaluwa,” Viv is Loretta’s former colleague at the center. It’s Viv who calls Loretta to tell her that Chaminda died. The story also hints that Viv played an indirect (and unintentional) role in Chaminda’s implied suicide: a note that Loretta left on Viv’s computer got misplaced and forgotten, delaying Chaminda’s release from the detention center indefinitely, which then motivated him to poison himself.