Mayhem glances over as Jade and Byte come in, then he leans over the map. “Grit will use the access roads along the South Bank. It’s the only route wide enough for commercial freight trucks that doesn't pass through the city's automated scale stations. If he tries to move that volume, he has to funnel his entire operational line right through the industrial canal corridor." The room falls into a heavy, calculating silence. The tactical beauty of the trap settles over the table like a lead weight: We don't need a fast court system. We let bureaucracy take its slow, agonizing days, relying on Vane's own corruption to pass him the poisoned chalice. Jade smiles. "It's so clean, because it strips Vane's psycho kill squad out of the equation entirely. Vane's private security won't fight a

