NEVA POV
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Mitch continued working through Priya's journal in the days following our meeting with Garrick, and what he found next carried a different kind of weight — not another threat, but something that reframed everything I understood about my own family's history.
"Your grandfather," he said, finding me in the garden where I'd taken to sitting more often since the revelation, needing the specific grounding quality of soil and growing things. "On your father's side. Priya's journal has an entry about him too."
I felt my whole body tense.
"Tell me," I said.
"He knew," Mitch said carefully. "About Garrick's father's failed suppression request. Not the full details, but enough. There's a letter, referenced in the journal though not included directly, where your grandfather apparen
