Bram had put the word diversion in the title of his briefing before he compared his copy with Tomas’s order.
The investigator noticed first.
“This page doesn’t mention the outer shelter,” she said.
“It assigns protection to the core.”
“Yes. Was that assignment drawn from the shelter unit when you saw it?”
Bram looked at the page again. He had received the copy among the interagency dispatches circulated to response liaisons during the hospital operation. He remembered the core request because it bore a routing mark from a desk he knew. When the driver’s alteration became public, the two documents had joined too readily in his mind.
“I believed it was the same deployment,” he said.
“Can the copy establish that?”
