The briefing was in the estate study at nine on a Friday morning.
Savio at the head of the table. Dante to Sera's left with his folder open. The study had the quality it always had for serious conversations: dark wood, books that had been in the same positions for decades, the settled quiet of a room that had absorbed many significant things and been unchanged by all of them.
Savio opened without a preamble.
Fenn Aldric. Twelve years of documented activity. Six targets were selected by the same criteria each time: companies with internal covenant vulnerabilities, board compositions susceptible to factional pressure, leadership structures where one or two key people could be destabilized, and the rest would follow. Three of the six had been completely destroyed. All of it had moved throu
