As the Northern Faction collapsed financially and Elias died, my focus shifted to the most personal threat: Elara. I had ordered her capture in Zurich, but she managed to escape through hidden service tunnels, taking some key Coven assets with her.
"Elara is moving toward Lisbon, Cassian," Ben reported from Paris. "She used Coven emergency funds that she managed to save while you focused your attack in the North Sea."
"She's trying to run," I said coldly. I sat on the private jet, my shoulder still aching from the Hong Kong gunshot. "Cut off her escape route."
"We're trying, but she's using the same banking network Coven used in Eastern Europe—a highly isolated network."
I summoned Agent D, who had just returned from Valerian following Cyrus's successful capture, made possible by the p
