THE DEAN'S ASSASSIN
Beside me stood Elias, his left arm in a black silk sling, looking clean, sharp, and entirely unrecognizable to the press below.
"Director Vance-Ross is delivering the final report," Elias murmured, nodding toward the microphone below.
Vance-Ross cleared his throat, adjusting his wire-rimmed glasses before addressing the crowded chamber:
"...The network known casually as Blackbriar, along with its corporate entities under the Crucible Consortium, has been permanently dissolved. Its central data nodes have been rendered inert by an unrecoverable systems overwrite. Today, we present to this assembly the complete, unredacted record of every illegal surveillance node, every extortion dossier, an