He gave them the names at seven in the morning.
Not all of them — he held back three, which Cole identified through the pattern gaps and which Brynn's people would find through their own territorial investigation. But eleven names. Eleven people operating the informal network across eight territories, each carrying the founding ideology without formal membership, each deploying the mechanism in their own specific way.
Eleven names.
Eleven territories where the lie might be running right now.
Where someone was spending their energy suppressing themselves, believing they were dangers, managing what they had been told was the most threatening thing about them.
Cole organized it into a document within the hour.
He handed it to Darius.
Darius looked at it.
"This is months of work," he s
