Swamped

It's a note with an identical message to the one the doctor showed you earlier. You hadn't thought much about it in a while, but now you realize something... isn't the informant going around looking for someone who's mentioning Kandrian names?

But you haven't been told any Pledge, so this can't be about you even if it does involve the informant. You would be extremely disturbed if it were.

You can also tell that this is a different note from the one you saw earlier - it's on an entirely different type of paper. A rather unusual kind, in fact. But why would two people have the same message?

Backup. If one can't make the meeting, the other goes there. And if there's no means of passing a message to the other party, they'd have to use the same codeword.

So could the thief have actually been recruited to meet this agent, or did they just steal this note? Or perhaps they were meant to pass it on?

Well, given how carelessly they handed the message over, it's most likely they stole it. Perhaps from somebody else in here.

You look more closely at the paper, in case it offers some kind of clue as to who.