Chapter Fifty-One — The System That Protects ItselfMarcus pov I laid the documents out across Zeus's desk before anyone else had even finished sitting down."Collection Seventeen sits beneath an old D'Averon estate," I said, "outside the main palace district. Officially, it's registered as archive storage and historical preservation. Nothing that should draw any attention on paper.""But," Kelsey said, already leaning forward."But the security around the lower levels doesn't match a simple storage facility," I said. "And that's not even the part that bothers me most."Zeus crossed his arms, waiting."Access requests to that property have been submitted before," I said. "By Crown officials and people with legitimate reason to review old holdings like Historians and none of them were ever formally refused.""If they weren’t refused then what happened to them?" Varian asked."They were either delayed or redirected or lost somewhere in processing." I tapped the stack of paperwork I'd g
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