Hessa arrived at ten with two board members and a document case that Cole assessed in four seconds and concluded contained more than a routine briefing package.
He was right.
The board had worked through the night.
Six years of the administrator's communication access, cross-referenced against every board action in the organizational dissolution. Five warnings confirmed. But the overnight analysis had found something else.
A sixth.
"The sixth warning," Hessa said, setting the document on the study table, "was not about a board action. It was about intelligence the board received from a cooperating source." She held Darius's gaze. "The warning was sent eighteen months ago. Before the archive seizure. Before the summit. Before most of what this compound has dealt with in the last year."
