Tessa released the photographs after the independent technician signed the description.
The first showed the crate lining raised in place. The second showed the fasteners and wire before removal. The third showed the serial marking beside the custody reference. She left out the clinic wall, the yard entrance and the faces of volunteers whose destinations could not be made public merely because they had opened a donation.
Eli read the accompanying statement twice.
“Will anyone notice?” he asked.
“They’ll notice devices hidden beneath the lining,” she said.
“It doesn’t say why.”
“We don’t have the shipment instructions.”
She included the request for those instructions. At least one original remained under independent custody. The second unit’s handling was separately recorded. Useful equipment had been accepted only after inspection and recipient choice. The words did not carry the anger Eli felt looking at the pictures, but they gave that anger something that could withstand another person’s questions.
