NEVA POV
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His name was Fel Grath.
Mitch had it on the screen within twenty minutes — not because Grath was in the standard intelligence networks, but because the name wasn't in them, which was itself the data point. Someone with the history Corva was describing should have left traces. The absence of traces was the trace.
"He's been operating under multiple identities," Mitch said. "I can see the edges of the previous ones — accounts that were built carefully and then abandoned, addresses that existed in records for exactly the period they were useful and then went silent, connections to financial structures that dissolved in ways that were legal but impractical to track." He looked at the screen. "This is someone who has spent decades not being in the system. Which means he's very
