[SERA — POV]
He came to her office at two.
She had the documents laid out—not all of them, but the essential ones. The Garrison. The communication records. The Pellier chain. She'd thought carefully about the order in which to present them because the order mattered; you couldn't give someone the ending before they understood what the ending was ending.
She gave him everything.
She watched the Garrison documentation land. She watched him read the Architect operational record—the two embedded operatives, the timing, the tactical signature planted to look like Noctis forces. She watched him read his own name in the casualty list. Captain Brennan: three fingers, left hand, trauma to the scapula. Psychological profile: high likelihood of prolonged grievance fixation toward attributed perpe
