Sable and Nadia worked through the night, splitting the task between them — Sable pulling everything publicly available on Castellan's financial history, professional associations, and prior statements to the press, Nadia working the more delicate task of tracing any digital footprint connected to the code name he'd mentioned during the session.
By six the next morning, they had Hunter, Ren, and Yewande on a call, both of them talking over each other slightly in the way people do after too many hours without sleep and too much found too quickly to process calmly.
"We got something," Sable said. "Not from Castellan directly — his personal devices were wiped by the time federal agents reached his home last night, exactly like the liaison warned us they might be. But we got something better
