Sarah Chen's next call arrived with an energy Ivy had learned, over the past year, to recognize as the particular sound of a journalist closing in on something significant.
"I found the connection," Chen said, without preamble. "A name that appears, quietly, across multiple cases spanning nearly three decades — your father's case, Robby Ashworth's, and at least two others I've since uncovered through old Federation archives. Grigor Petrovsky. He was a regional Federation administrator during your father's era, rose steadily through the organization's international leadership structure over the following decades, and currently serves as Vice President of the International Fencing Federation's ethics and compliance division."
"The ethics and compliance division." Ivy felt something cold an
