[KAEL — POV]
The documentation from his contact arrived at 23:40.
He read it. Then he read it again, because the first reading had produced a conclusion that he needed to confirm.
The originating order for the Lily Voss operation had not come from within the Noctis Court. It had come from an Architect handler operating in the Ash Market—a human, going by records. Someone who had been operating as an independent for thirty years, with ties to both the Noctis outer territories and the Warden's Flame's intelligence infrastructure.
The handler's name was in the documentation.
He recognized it.
He looked at Sera, who was on the other side of the table working through the Damaris documentation he'd given her, making notes in the angular economical handwriting he'd identified as entirely he
