Adam did not move away from the table after saying that.
The copied phone stayed in front of him, its screen still open to Rovan's mail. A few minutes later, another message refreshed inside the same account. Then another. Rovan was sending short updates now, the kind a frightened man wrote when he wanted the other side to understand quickly.
World Zone men seen leaving two rented rooms near south road. No watchers found near the old broker's warehouse. Questions around George's transport line have stopped for now. Two sources say the foreign group pulled people back after the Frontier Force move.
Adam read each line carefully.
The more messages came, the clearer the shape became. The people who had been circling Bruno's outer contacts were no longer visible. The ones who had been digging through Rovan's planted trail toward George had disappeared. Even the small street mouths that had been repeating questions about the forest road had gone quiet.
