Chapter 26 The Surveillance Warning
- Velvet’s surveillance hub lay two levels beneath the wine bar’s glinting marble. Concrete bones. Cold steel racks. Red diode lights blinking like nervous pulses.
- Isolde stood beside Dorian at the control terminal, arms crossed.
- Penelope’s file had arrived via encrypted bounce: Vivienne’s voice. A spike in audio resonance. The moment of reclamation.