The message came through Adaeze on a Wednesday morning, two weeks into the verification process.
It was not from Adaeze. She had forwarded it from the outlet's tip line with a single line attached: This came in last night. I think you need to see it before I do anything with it.
The message read: My name is Carver Mensah. I was case seven in the contractor program. I have been reading Adaeze Nworu's story for three weeks. I know what the notation means because it was applied to me. I am in Caldren City. I want to talk to the person the story is about.
Hunter read it twice.
He sat in his room for a long time.
He had known Carver Mensah's name since the night Acker sent the contractor records through the clean channel. Case seven was in those records — one of the nine files with the Con
