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Chapter 95: Evidence

Author: Ihechiink
last update publish date: 2026-04-30 05:45:19

The access log took forty minutes to pull.

I knew this because Tristan tracked it. He had stepped out of the room twice during the night, brief and purposeful, returning each time with the specific expression of someone who was managing multiple streams of information simultaneously and keeping them organized and separate. He did not tell me everything in real time. He told me what I needed to know when I needed to know it and held the rest until it was confirmed, which was a form of care I rec
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