The federal investigation's case team reached the east facility at seven twenty-two in the evening. Hunter knew the time because the oversight body contact sent a single message at seven twenty-three: Team on site. Entering now. He was at the substation when it came in. Serwa was with him — Dayo had asked her to stay for an extended baseline session while he built the Version Four meters, wanting to document as much of her primary profile as the standard equipment could capture before the new units were ready. She had agreed without discussing it, which was consistent with everything Hunter had observed about her in the six hours since she had walked out of the facility. She sat in the center of the meter array and held her baseline output and watched the displays the way she had watche

