NEVA POV
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Mitch found her four days later, which by his own admission was faster than he'd projected and which he attributed, with characteristic precision, to a filing quirk from decades ago that most researchers would have overlooked.
"Territorial displacement records," he said, laying it out at the round table with the specific satisfaction of a man whose method had worked exactly as designed. "Anyone who traveled between territories in a formal capacity during that period had to file a displacement notice — a bureaucratic requirement nobody enforces anymore, but the records still exist if you know which archive to search." He turned his screen toward Corva. "A Maren Loch, age nineteen at the time, filed a displacement notice for travel to Elara's territory eleven days before the
