MITCH
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The two fugitives' cooperation, once formalized, produced something Mitch hadn't anticipated — not simply confirmation of what the investigation already suspected, but an entirely new thread that reframed everything about the network's true origin.
"They weren't recruited by Vesna's structure directly," he told the round table, laying out the fresh documentation with barely contained urgency. "They were recruited by someone else entirely, someone using Vesna's historical framework as cover for a considerably more contemporary operation."
Ryke's expression sharpened immediately. "Meaning what."
"Meaning the two-hundred-year structure we've been dismantling might have been, for the last decade at least, being quietly repurposed," Mitch said. "Someone learned the old methodolo
