Yewande worked in near silence for the next hour, cross-referencing a facility address against three separate sets of records — the official contractor program's decommissioning list, a set of utility filings Nadia pulled at Sable's request, and her own eighteen months of internal notes.
Hunter waited with Ren and Sable, none of them saying much, the office quieter than it had been in days.
"Found it," Yewande finally said. "The official decommissioning filing lists this facility as closed four years ago. Structural issues, budget cuts, standard language nobody would question." She turned her screen around. "But the utility filings show continuous power draw at that address every month since, at levels consistent with active operation, not an empty building."
"Four years of power bills
