MITCH
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Mitch found it days after Ren's early resonance — a fragment, buried in the passive monitoring he'd maintained since before her birth, easy to miss unless you knew precisely what pattern to search for.
A single message, on a channel connected to one of Vesna's former operatives — not the detained ones, someone further out, someone the investigation hadn't yet fully mapped.
*The fourth's child is accelerating. Confirmed independently. This changes the calculation for anyone still interested in prevention.*
He read it three times before bringing it to Ryke.
"Someone outside the dismantled structure," he said, laying it out with the specific careful precision he brought to information that mattered enormously. "Connected loosely enough that our investigation missed them entir
