They worked in Ren's apartment for six hours the first day.
Sable spread her documentation across the table in the order she had built it — corporate group structure first, then the subsidiary connections, then the research foundation financials, then the six facility records with the maintenance deference evidence. Ren laid his timeline against it, matching dates, matching budget lines, matching the contractor program's federal filings to the financial flows Sable had traced.
Hunter sat at the end of the table and watched two people who had been working the same problem from different directions discover that their work was the same map drawn from opposite sides.
It took forty minutes for Sable and Ren to align their documentation. After that they moved fast, the way people who are gen
