Kai was awake when William came back to the room, sitting quietly on his bed with his eyes open, indicating he had either awakened on his own or heard William activate the crystal and decided to wait.
William relayed the message to him in a straightforward manner, without any embellishments, ensuring the information was conveyed as clearly as possible.
Kai listened.
When William finished, Kai was quiet for a moment.
"Your mother is moving the legal mechanism," he said.
"Yes."
"Which means the client who might be your father, or whoever is operating through his structure will know today that the investigation has reached them. When official inquiry is opened, the subject is typically notified." Kai looked at the window. "That changes their timeline."
"They accelerate," William said.
"Or they abort." Kai turned his cup — there was already tea, somehow, which William had stopped questioning. "Aborting is safer for them legally."
