The body arrived at the underground facility six hours into their eighteen-hour deadline—female, approximately Maya's age and build, procured through channels Katarina refused to explain and no one dared question. The facility's medical examiner studied the corpse with professional detachment that made Louis physically ill.
"Cause of death was cardiac event unrelated to our purposes," the examiner stated. "Body has been unidentified in morgue system for three weeks. Perfect candidate for substitution. We will create trauma consistent with assassination—gunshot wounds, specific damage matching network's typical methodology. Dental records and DNA will be altered to match Maya's official documentation."
"You are desecrating someone's body to fake my daughter's death," Louis stated, journal
