Dmitri's findings came back at eleven the next morning, and they were worse than any of them had prepared for, which was saying something given that none of them had gone into the previous night with particularly optimistic expectations about what the trail would show.
The Castellan and Morrow referrals both traced back to Laurent Voss. Not directly, not in any way that would have been visible without knowing specifically what to look for, but unmistakably once you did know, a pattern of intermediaries and introduced connections and carefully maintained distances that looked, to Noa's trained eye, exactly like someone who understood paper trails from the inside out and had spent years constructing a version of plausible deniability so thorough it was almost beautiful in its technical prec
