Talia doesn't answer her phone on the second day.
I notice around noon, when I text her an update on the Whitmore signature analysis Renn dug up overnight, proof the ink density on the forged page doesn't match any pen model issued through the Exchange's standard supply. No response. I text again an hour later. Still nothing.
By evening, I'm sitting in my apartment with the hearing prep spread across my table, and the silence from her end has gone from odd to wrong.
Renn calls before I can call him. "Have you heard from Talia?"
"Not since this morning. Why?"
"Because she's not answering me either, and she told me yesterday she was going to pull Voss's private drafting records directly, not through the archive room, through some old access she still has from before she got broken. Said
