Washington, 9:00 a.m. localFelicia Draymond stood outside the closed-door briefing room where the American delegation's final pre-summit consultation was scheduled to begin in eleven minutes, a drive containing Marchetti's salvaged fragments and de Groot's four years of documentation held against her chest like something that might still change shape if she loosened her grip."Once this goes in," her committee chair said quietly beside her, "there's no controlled version of what happens next. You understand that.""I've understood that since a rooftop in Marseille that I never actually saw," Felicia said, and walked through the doors before either of them could second-guess the decision any further.Leipzig, 3:00 p.m. localKlaus Reinholt, still weak enough that standing for more than a few minutes cost him something visible, sat propped against pillows in a borrowed apartment and dictated the final summary of his three-year investigation to a German financial oversight liaison who'd

The prosecution took months to fully take shape, spread across four countries and a half dozen legal jurisdictions that had never once been designed to coordinate with each other at this scale, but it took shape nonetheless. Raphael followed most of it from a distance, the same way he'd followed Sten's testimony months earlier, watching a structure built patiently over a decade dismantle itself piece by piece under the weight of evidence that could no longer be quietly buried by any single government acting alone.Margaret Vance never got the chance to disappear the way she'd once planned to from that Brussels estate. The summit's own emergency proceedings held her within the building until formal custody arrangements could be negotiated across three separate legal systems, an unprecedented tangle of jurisdiction that Felicia, in a message to Raphael months later, described as "the single most complicated extradition case anyone in Washington has seen in a decade, and I'm genuinely pr