The email arrived on a Wednesday at seven-fourteen am.
Tobias sent it to everyone simultaneously, as he always did for milestones. The subject line: *Records milestone: 400 cases reviewed.*
Four sentences. The Tobias standard.
*The Records has completed its four hundredth case review. Of the 400 cases, 203 have resulted in formal legal challenges. 171 challenges have been fully resolved. The remaining 32 are in active process.*
She read it at the ward, first coffee, Bettany's clipboard already in motion around her.
She thought about the first case. Nessa Varr, who had walked past twice before she came in.
She thought about Lenne Crone's thirty-one families added to the queue. She thought about Tobias in a safe house with a paint-stain sweatshirt. She thought about the first Friday Th
