Sophia's DNA claim lasted thirty-seven hours before it collapsed.
Arthur had the test independently analyzed within six hours of receiving it at the gate — Sophia had handed the envelope to Rosa and left without incident, which itself said something, because people who are certain of their position don't typically leave without incident. The independent analysis came back clean: the sample had been tampered with at the processing stage, a manipulation so amateur that the lab flagged it in the first pass. A second lab confirmed it. A third, which Arthur requested purely for thoroughness, said the same thing in slightly more incredulous language.
Tyler, who had been quietly tracking the source, identified the lab that had produced the fabricated result within twenty-four hours — a small op
