The synchronized attacks on Kael’s peripheral assets demanded an immediate, split-focus response. Seraphina took command of the legal fortress in the Marlowe Tower, while Kael engaged the financial bleeding from the executive penthouse. The clock was ticking before the federal audit on Voss Holdings could broaden its scope and connect Kael Voss, the phantom investor, to the shadowy origins of the Acheron Trust. Seraphina moved with the controlled intensity of a crisis manager under fire. She gathered Marlowe’s top international tax attorneys and compliance experts in the company’s reinforced legal command center. “The objective is absolute isolation,” Seraphina instructed, projecting the federal audit documents on the main screen.

