Two weeks after Katarina's final operation, Ral and Louis sat in sterile FBI conference room in Anchorage while Chen presented their options with bureaucratic precision that could not quite mask her personal investment in their outcome.
"Network leadership is confirmed eliminated," Chen stated, displaying photographs of eight deceased targets with clinical detachment. "Remaining mid-level operatives have either been arrested through international cooperation or have fled into hiding. Threat assessment indicates ninety-two percent probability that coordinated revenge operations against your family have permanently ceased."
"Ninety-two percent," Louis repeated. "What about the remaining eight percent?"
"Statistical uncertainty," Chen replied. "Lone actors seeking personal revenge, rogue e
