[SERA — POV]
She told her uncle on Thursday.
She found him in his office in the morning, an hour before briefing, which was when he was most clearheaded and when the rest of the building was occupied enough that they'd have privacy. She sat across from his desk and said: "There's something else."
He looked up from his papers with the eyes of a man who had spent a week being told there's something else and had developed a specific preparedness for it.
She told him about the retaliatory operations. About the eleven. About the Architect timeline that showed the retaliation had been the intended result of the Garrison false attribution — the Architects had needed the Noctis Court to be struck, had needed real conflict between the sides, had needed the bodies to accumulate on both sides so
