Lenora's POV
Ferren was brought in quietly — not arrested, because the investigation needed him functional long enough to identify the remaining nodes.
Bramwell handled the initial conversation. I was present, as was Cassian. Lyssa had traveled to Duskveil for the meeting.
Ferren was not what I'd expected. He was comfortable-looking, the kind of person whose presence in a room is immediately reassuring — warm eyes, easy manner, the practiced approachability of someone who has spent years building trust for professional purposes.
He looked at us and made his calculation in approximately four seconds.
"The reports," he said.
"Yes," Bramwell said.
"The rounding pattern."
"Yes."
He looked at his hands. "Fourteen months," he said. "I've been at this for fourteen months, not twelve. The
