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Ch 74 - Who Are You
Akeel stepped away from the obvious corridor.“Does your sponsorship include emergency service access?” he asked.“Limited access,” Lone Warden replied. “Secondary staff routes only.”“That’s enough.”Danaya understood what he intended.She did not use Dominion to force a door open. Doing so in front of Nightshade would risk exposing a Level Ten ability strongly associated with Danaya Valcrest.Instead, Lone Warden used the legitimate temporary service authorization attached to their access.A secondary staff corridor unlocked.They entered.Akeel remembered Torven’s lesson again.Do not fight the security system when understanding how it was meant to be used could take you farther.Their new route moved away from the deliberately exposed path.Akeel intended to reach the docking section from another direction.Inside the quieter service corridor, he increased his use of Supersense.He listened ahead for patrols, occupied rooms, movement beyond intersections, and unusual energy around
Ch 73 - The Empty Transfer
Akeel continued toward the protected access point without slowing his pace.He had already warned Lone Warden that the mission might be a trap, and her answer had been simple.They would enter anyway, but they would find out who had set it before the enemy realized they understood what was happening.Akeel opened two secure connections on his Crystal Link before he reached the departure area. One went to Cyrus. The other went through the Veiled Nexus to Ironhorn.“Observation only unless someone’s life is in immediate danger,” Nightshade ordered. “Nobody interferes with the transfer yet.”“I’ll keep watching the external confirmation,” Cyrus replied.Ironhorn gave the same answer from his side of the investigation.Akeel closed both connections.He still had not told Lone Warden why the protected passenger mattered to him. She knew that information about the transfer might have been deliberately exposed and that Crimson Viper’s people appeared to be waiting for whoever followed the pa
Ch 72 - The Passenger They Were Waiting For
Akeel continued toward the private departure point while keeping his Crystal Link connected to Cyrus.The protected guest had already received final departure clearance, but that did not mean the person was physically aboard the departing transport. Astral Crown's external medical-protection system revealed very little, and Akeel had no way of knowing whether his brother was cooperating with the transfer, being deceived, or being moved against his will.The emergency route concerned him. The elderly witness had identified it as a route Theron specifically restricted for the hidden twin because it passed through a network connected to a dangerous enemy.Even so, Akeel refused to assume the current transfer was hostile simply because it used that route.“Continue watching the external confirmation,” Akeel told Cyrus. “If the guest's status changes, another destination field appears, or someone replaces the current authorization, contact me immediately.”“I'll keep the record open,” Cyru
Ch 71 - Investigating Magnus And Shane
Zelia attempted to redirect the conversation.“The man everyone knows as Akeel has changed so much since his earlier disappearance,” she said. “Perhaps people are misunderstanding events from that time because they no longer know what he would have wanted.”Akeel did not pretend to remember a private meeting he had never attended.“Then the original messages should help us understand what he was told,” he replied. “I want the meeting instructions and any correspondence that still exists.”Danaya looked toward Zelia and Shane.“We are investigating documents, witnesses, authorization records, and protected routes,” she said. “Personal opinions about Akeel don’t answer those questions.”She allowed a moment for that to settle before continuing.“Preserve anything relevant to the old meeting. Neither of you is being accused simply because you knew the missing man, but the evidence needs to survive long enough to be examined.”Zeli
Ch 70 - The Road That Led Back
Akeel closed Cyrus’s message before anyone could see it. The elderly witness was still standing in front of him, and Akeel had no intention of letting another question go unanswered while someone who had personally helped Theron remained within reach.“You said Theron hid us from different enemies,” Akeel said. “Explain what you meant.”The older man glanced toward Aldric and Elias before returning his attention to Akeel.“I helped arrange protection for one of Selene’s sons many years ago,” the witness replied. “It was your brother, not you. Theron told me that keeping the two of you together would make it easier for someone to find you both.”Akeel studied him carefully. He had spent years believing he was Bram and Hester’s biological son, only to discover that Selene was his real mother and that he had an identical twin. Now someone who had been involved in the protection arrangement was standing before him.“Who was Theron hiding us from?” Akeel asked.“One danger came from people
Ch 69 - The Message That Never Escaped
Akeel kept his expression unchanged while Cyrus’s latest message remained open on his Crystal Link.THERON CORVAIN — ACTIVE AUTHORITY CONFIRMED.Astral Crown was not showing an old entry that had only now been discovered. Its current protection system had accepted Theron Corvain as the authority behind the transfer happening now.The protected guest carrying an energy pattern consistent with Akeel’s twin had already entered the departure process.Only a few steps away, Danaya was still studying the modern Valcrest authorization that had been recovered from the attacked transport.That system had also accepted a high-level protection command as active.The damaged Elaris verification artifact contained an older protection structure connected to Theron, while Selene’s renewed suppression carried a similar protected authorization design.Akeel saw the pattern, but he kept the evidence separated in his mind.Only Astral Crown had identified Theron by name.The Valcrest system had accepted
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