Ethan’s POVSophia was the one who pieced it together.I’d been handling the internal review for two days now, going slow and steady, checking each of the seventeen names on the access list one by one. Interviews, going over documents, reviewing timelines. I’d narrowed it down to four folks whose actions lined up closest with the leaked info, and Gareth from Westfield topped that list, but I still hadn’t dug up anything solid enough to act on.On the second evening, Sophia showed up at the office, sat across from me, and placed a sheet of paper right on the desk between us.“Take a look at this,” she said.It was a log of communications. Internal Alliance messages over the last three months, with timestamps and sender IDs. She’d gone through them on her own, without letting me know, and spotted something I’d overlooked.“These four messages here,” she said, pointing them out. “They came from a shared Alliance account that six people can access. But check the timestamps.”I did. The me
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