Dagger's POV "You brought two folders," I said when he came through the kitchen door. Reed looked at his hands. Two folders, one under each arm, plus the coffee he had somehow balanced through the doorway without spilling. "The second one does not work," he told me. He set both on the table, then he set the coffee down and sat across from me. I looked at the folders. The first one I recognised. The welfare investigation documentation, the section we had been reviewing daily, the progress tracking Reed maintained with the thoroughness of someone who understood that incomplete records were how things failed. He had been updating it every morning, sliding the relevant pages across the table, talking me through the changes while we drank coffee before anyone else in the pack house was properly awake. The second folder was different. Thinner. Handwritten, which Reed's materials never were, every page he produced was typed, organised, and cross-referenced. This folder looked like it
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