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Daven reached Priya's husband within the hour, and the account he brought back to the round table only deepened the specific unease that had settled over the compound since Mitch's discovery.
"He had no idea," Daven said, his voice carrying the weight of a difficult conversation. "No knowledge of her family's connection to the structure at all. He said she'd been withdrawn for weeks before she left — distant, distracted, spending long hours alone with old boxes he'd never seen her open before."
"Did he see what was in the boxes," Ryke asked.
"He found them empty when he finally looked," Daven said. "Whatever she took, she took with her."
Mitch was already cross-referencing everything Daven relayed against the financial withdrawal patterns and the fragmentary digital trail Pr
