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The Correction

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(Adrian)

"Activated how?"

I kept my voice level. Eight years of training did that for me, even while everything under my ribs wanted to come apart.

Tomas didn't answer right away. I watched him weigh it, a man who'd learned exactly what silence cost and still couldn't quite break the habit of it.

"I don't know the specifics," he said. "But I know the shape. I overheard enough before I ran." He turned his glass a quarter turn on the table. "The Correction isn't one event. It's a process. They is
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    (Adrian)Loh worked through the night tracing the scholarship's full origin, and by morning, she'd assembled a picture that unsettled me more than almost anything we'd uncovered since Wraithmoor first opened its gates."It wasn't random." She spread printouts across the dining table, exhaustion and grim satisfaction warring across her face. "Adrian, the scholarship program you attended had exactly six recipients that year. I tracked down every one of them.""And." I braced myself for the answer."Three went on to careers in private security, exactly like you did." Loh kept her voice level. "One works for a firm that's contracted, at various points over the last decade, with three different properties we now know are connected to this network. Another disappeared from public record entirely, roughly eight years ago, around the same time several other names connected to this investigation simply vanished.""And the third." Sienna's voice had gone tight.Loh's expression tightened. "The

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    (Adrian)The words landed in that quiet terrace like something physical, and for a long moment none of us spoke at all, the weight of it settling slow and complete over every person gathered there."My name." I repeated it, working to keep my voice steady despite the sudden, sharp unease climbing through my chest. "Elena, are you certain? This is important.""I'm certain." Her voice had gone thin but resolute. "He said 'someone was coming to collect something valuable,' and then he said your full name, Adrian Wolfe, like it meant something specific to him. Like he'd been expecting you specifically, not just anyone connected to this investigation."Sienna's hand found mine, gripping tight, and I felt the same cold dread settling into both of us at once."That doesn't make sense." I worked through it even as the pieces refused to arrange themselves into anything comfortable. "I've never had contact with Faust. Never crossed paths with the Devereux family, not once, in fifteen years of s

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