The motion reached Eli in a folder marked family protection.
He read the cover before the pages beneath it, which was how he almost misunderstood what was being requested. The inquiry representative proposed excluding Mira’s shipping extracts from the coastal evidence session. Mira had admitted killing Nara Senn. Her reliability was compromised, her access to the file controlled by Rook, and her continued appearance beside the river team risked using a victim’s warning to elevate the person responsible for her death.
Some of that described real dangers. The requested remedy went farther.
It would remove the extracts before the independently logged receipt comparison was heard. The numbered assembly, selected operation date and later correction would disappear together from that part of the record, although other people had obtained and could explain the depot material.
Juno read the operative paragraph and put it beside her comparison report.
“Are they excluding her claim of what the page said, or everything we tested afterward?”
“As drafted, the linked comparison,” Eli said.
“Then they need to say which part stands on whose observation.”
