The name on the targeting database was Nkechi Asare.
Thirty-two years old. Chemical engineer at a water treatment facility on the city's northeast edge. The targeting report Lena had memorized placed her in the program's priority acquisition list fourteen months ago. The arranged event was a pressure seal failure in the facility's main processing chamber — the same mechanism used at Carver's facility two years ago. The scheduled maintenance rejection was already in the system. Lena had the date. Eleven days.
Hunter ran the same cross-reference protocol Dayo had used for Tobenna and Priscilla. Public employment registry confirmed. Residential utility connection confirmed through Nadia's inter-agency access. He had an address by ten that night.
He did not send the timestamp message.
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