Elena POV
Kelly called us all into one room the next morning. No side conversations. No secrets held back for later. Just everyone, together, at one table.
"I want to lay it all out," she said. "Everything Max and Thorne found. The whole picture."
Adrian sat beside me, arms crossed. "You've been keeping something from us."
"Not on purpose," Kelly said. "We wanted facts first. Now we have some."
Max pulled up a screen. Numbers and account names filled it. "Some Veil-linked bank accounts went quiet after the Blind Zone fell. Now they're active again. Small payments. Careful ones. Someone doesn't want us to notice."
"But you noticed," Ariston said.
"I noticed," Max said. "The pattern matches an old training method. One Thorne used to teach."
Everyone turned to Thorne. He didn't flinch as he said
"I trained a man named Cassian Voss, years ago. That was before I worked for Kael. He was smart and very skilled. I thought he'd do good things with what I taught him.
