Chapter 468 - CHAPTER 468 — The Hunter's Files - II

Rain began striking the reinforced skylights overhead in steady rhythmic patterns that softened the otherwise sterile atmosphere, and Isabella slowly approached the evidence table where the remaining files from San Diego lay neatly organized beneath protective covers, realizing that every witness statement previously dismissed as fear or confusion deserved to be read again through entirely different eyes. She opened the weathered investigation notebook she had carried across two continents, carefully adding fresh observations beneath earlier entries connecting Regina, unexplained disappearances, unidentified organizations, and the strange symbols repeatedly appearing throughout recovered evidence, while each new notation strengthened a pattern too consistent to ignore.