Ren had been looking at the problem since the preliminary summary arrived.
Hunter found him at Tessard Avenue at ten-fifteen with his laptop open and the legacy archive summary on the screen and the red marker in his hand but not at the wall. He was sitting at the table holding the marker without using it, which was unusual. Ren wrote on the wall when he understood something. Not writing meant he was still working toward understanding.
Hunter sat across from him.
He said: Tell me what you are thinking.
Ren said: The fourteen individuals. Transferred into a pre-authorization program twenty years ago. He paused. The pre-authorization program did not have federal infrastructure behind it at that point. The fourth tier authorization came a year later. He paused. What was the pre-authorizat
