Vrenn Myrvalis built traps the way a spider built webs — patiently, invisibly, and with the absolute certainty that something would walk into them.
The trap was information. Specifically, different information provided to different suspects through different channels, each piece unique — a *canary trap*, the intelligence technique of distributing marked variants of the same intelligence to identify who was leaking it. If the foreign network received information that matched a specific variant, the leak was the person who received that variant.
The operation targeted eight suspects — individuals with access to the type of intelligence that the dead drop messages had contained. Military installation locations, patrol schedules, Crucible security personnel names. Eight people who knew enough to be useful to a spy network and who had opportunity to pass that knowledge.
