Holloway reads through the trust documentation twice before setting it down, his expression grim in a way I haven't seen since the night he first ruled against the forged waiver in my very first hearing.
"This is significant," he says. "Significant enough that I'm authorizing formal investigative subpoena power through the council's emergency provisions. If Helena Meridian's genuinely coordinating consortium activity from outside official structures, we need legal access to that property and her financial records both."
"How long will that take?" I ask.
"Faster than the standard audit timeline, given the severity. I'd estimate we could have investigators at that address within forty-eight hours." Holloway studies the documents once more. "I want to commend all of you, incidentally. This
