The notary's name surfaced on day three.
Sable found it at two in the morning while running the final verification pass on the challenge document's financial section. She had been cross-referencing the foundation's disclosed income sources against the contractor program's research partnership payments when she pulled the notary record for Hunter's liability waiver as a secondary document — the kind of verification step she ran on everything adjacent to the core case because fourteen months of solo investigation had taught her that the peripheral documents were where the significant details hid.
She called Hunter immediately. He picked up on the second ring, which told her he had not been sleeping either.
The notary who witnessed your signature on the liability waiver, she said. The one
