Ren was already on his third cup of coffee when Hunter walked into the office at seven in the morning. Papers covered the desk, the floor, the second chair.
"They cited a statute yesterday," Ren said, not looking up. "National security override. I told you I'd check if it was real."
"Is it."
"It's real. And it's been used exactly once before." Ren turned his laptop around. A case number, a sealed docket entry, a date six years back. "Filed, then withdrawn within a week. No public record of why."
Hunter leaned over the screen. "Withdrawn by who?"
"That's the part that took all night." Ren tapped the screen. "Same law firm the capital group used to file the injunction against us. Same one that suppressed the prior financial challenge Sable found. This isn't the first time they've reache
