Rook knew a detail that was not in the packet.
Bram heard it while Sera was placing the junction map on the table. Rook referred to the expedition’s work as though he had read the source account rather than the redacted summary carried through the public entrance. The detail was small, unnecessary to the sentence, and accurate enough to make Bram’s hand stop above the chair.
A leak, he thought.
Then he made himself name the other possibilities. Aegis had seized records. Rook had investigators, technicians, and people whose access Bram did not know. Accuracy did not identify the path by which a fact had reached him.
“Where did you obtain that?” Bram asked.
Rook looked at him as though the question had arrived exactly where he expected.
“Emergency command has its own sources.”
“That detail wasn’t included here.”
