KNOX
The archive hearing for Thomas Harper-Wren's cause of death reclassification was scheduled for the second week of January. In the weeks between the Vasquez call and the hearing, three things happened.
Mercer's sub-committee appointment was suspended within forty-eight hours of the call, as Vasquez had promised. The suspension was communicated to the regional council with a brief formal notice that cited an ongoing investigation, which was the kind of language that immediately generated conversation in every pack communication channel Grayson monitored. By the following Monday, Grayson had a comprehensive map of which regional council members were defending Mercer, which were distancing themselves, and which were quietly asking his contacts what the evidence looked like.
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