The investigation's processing of the institute's protected identity records took four days.
Hunter knew it was running. The oversight body contact sent a brief update on day two — records volume larger than anticipated, full processing team assigned — and nothing further until day four at two forty-seven in the afternoon when the contact called directly.
Hunter answered at the substation where Efua's fourth morning session had extended into the early afternoon at Adjoa's request. They had been attempting to measure the directional component of the atmospheric field during a brief geomagnetic disturbance that Nadia had flagged from the federal monitoring data that morning. The disturbance was minor — a small-scale fluctuation in the geomagnetic horizontal component from a solar wind inte
