Caelan opened Seren’s investigation folder in a records room two floors below the Silvercrest operations center. He had chosen the room because the archive terminals there could pull system history without exporting the underlying records into another workspace. Adrian sat at the second terminal. A records officer occupied the third. For marker nineteen, Caelan arranged the work order beside its material issue, contractor-access record, inspection sign-off, and system closure history. The work order showed the drainage job completed on a Thursday. The contractor-access log showed no authorized outside crew at that section on Thursday or the two days before it. The material issue created a second problem. The quantity released against the work order was below the amount required by t

