Diaz arrived at eight the following morning as she had promised.She had two agents with her this time, both of whom waited in the corridor without being asked to. Grace let Diaz in, made coffee, and sat down at the kitchen table. Aiden stayed. Diaz had not asked him to leave and Grace had not suggested it and Diaz looked at this arrangement and accepted it in the silent way she accepted most things, as an observed fact that she would incorporate into her assessment and move on."The traffic has settled," Diaz said. "The increased communication we were monitoring in the Volkov network has dropped back to baseline levels in the last thirty-six hours. Which means one of two things.""They've made a decision and stopped discussing it," Grace said."Or they've moved to a more secure channel we haven't identified yet," Diaz confirmed. "We don't know which. We're proceeding as if both are possible simultaneously." She set a folder on the table. "In the meantime, there is new evidence I want
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